Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin will take a trip to Uzhgorod (Zakarpattia region) on October 13, to attend a meeting of the Transcarpathian Hungarian Cultural Association (KMKSZ).
“I will visit Uzhgorod tomorrow. The Transcarpathian Hungarian Cultural Association invited me to its meeting. ‘Your presence will be an honor for us,’ the letter says,” Klimkin wrote on his Facebook page on October 12.
He noted that “the situation is funny” since the chairman of this association, Ukrainian MP Laslo Brenzovych had recently appealed to Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko with the requirement to bring the foreign minister to justice for “deliberate incitement of national hatred.”
“I hope they will still be happy to see me. Personally, I sincerely rejoice at the upcoming meeting. I love frank face-to-face conversations. They are much more useful and honest than populist attacks or blackening behind my back,” Klimkin said.
He noted that it was especially important for him to speak with those Ukrainian Hungarians whose interests are directly affected by current tensions between Budapest and Kyiv.
