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Ukraine in international organisations or deci- sions benefiting that country. Hungary will raise the subject at UN, OSCE and EU forums, he said. Hungary's foreign minister has summoned the ambassador of Ukraine to outline Hungary’s objections to the country's “shameful and dis- graceful” education law amendment impacting minorities.
According to Szijjártó, it is “shameful and outra- geous” that the Ukrainian president has signed the law. He added that until now, Poroshenko
had spoken about the fact that he wants to take Ukraine closer to Europe, but with today’s deci- sion "he has moved further away from Europe and taken a huge step in the opposite direction".
"At the currently ongoing session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Hungary will veto all EU comments or viewpoints that that do not condemn Ukraine with sufficient force and deter- mination", Szijjarto added.
"Ukraine has to understand that this was no way to get closer to the EU. We won’t allow it,” Orban said in a radio interview on September 22, speak- ing about the issue for the first time.
"The new act Ukraine has violated several in- ternational agreements while pledging to move
closer to the community of European nations", the Hungarian Hman Resources Ministry said.
The deputy head of Ukraine's presidential ad- ministration, Kostiantyn Yeliseyev, believes that Hungary's "hysterical statements" on the Ukrain- ian education law are related to the parliamentary elections that will take place in this country next year, as well as the fact that "Hungary wants to divert attention from its current problems in rela- tions with the EU, particularly in the context of migration issues", Interfax news agency reported on September 26.
Zenon Zawada at Kyiv-based brokerage Concorde Capital wrote in a research note on September 27 that Hungary’s hostile gesture "is in coordination with the Kremlin, which is exploiting the Ukrainian government’s reasonable attempts to consolidate its multi-ethnic society under a common language".
"Ties between Russia and Hungary’s nationalist government tightened this year following a meet- ing with the nations’ two leaders in February," the expert added.
Earlier the government also passed a law that sets a minimum quota on broadcasters for Ukrainian-language programming.
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