On May 12 planned consultations between Ukraine and Hungary on the issue of national minorities, which were to be the beginning of regular negotiations, were delayed by the Hungarian side. The meeting, which was to take place in Uzhgorod, was moved against the background of exacerbation of relations between the two countries through a spy scandal.
The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine confirmed that the Hungarian side has decided to postpone these important consultations that were planned earlier . According to the report, the work of expert groups for consideration of 11 recommendations concerning national minorities in was agreed in Budapest . The Ukrainian delegation hoped for the first results on 12 , but now the meeting was postponed indefinitely . The cause of the changes was the explosive spy scandal between Ukraine and Hungary, which gained wide publicity 9 . Security Service of Ukraine reported that she detained two agents of Hungarian intelligence suspected of studying the scenarios of the behavior of the locals of Transcarpathia in the event of interference with Hungarian troops. These events led to mutual diplomatic expulsions: Hungary expelled two Ukrainian diplomats, to which Ukraine responded with similar actions.
At the same time, the former diplomat of Ukraine, Sergiy Alexandrov, who now has no diplomatic position and is engaged in business in Budapest, was detained in Hungary This incident exacerbated the situation between the states.
It is not known at this time when negotiations between Ukraine and Hungary will be renewed The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine notes that further consultations will be restored after normalization of the situation. Meanwhile , the Ukrainian delegation remains in Uzhgorod, waiting for new negotiations .
