Justice Minister Laszlo Trocsanyi praised the endurance of the Hungarian community in Transcarpathia, Ukraine.
It was Trancarpathia’s Hungarians who were most isolated from Hungary during the Soviet times, “and we owe them respect for preserving their self-identity and mother tongue under rather difficult circumstances”, the Hungarian justice minister said in Ungvar (Uzhhorod), in western Ukraine. Laszlo Trocsanyi addressed a gathering in the local theatre that marked the 61st anniversary of Hungary’s ill-fated anti-Soviet uprising. In 1956, Transcarpathia and Uzhhorod itself formed part of a country whose troops brought down the Hungarian revolution, he said, according to MTI.
Trocsanyi emphasised the importance of the community’s right to education in their mother tongue without restriction. “We firmly stand up for the Hungarian community’s right to the use of their language in education as has been enshrined in international treaties,” he said, making reference to the recently adopted Ukrainian education law.
