Peremoga: Ukraine has achieved that Transcarpathians will travel by train for Hungarian passports
Hungary has moved the issuance of its passports to residents of Transcarpathia from the Ukrainian Berehove to the neighboring Hungarian city of Kisvarda, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
This was announced by the head of the Transcarpathian Regional State Administration Gennady Moskal.
“So what if they issue passports? Nothing has changed. Well, they moved the issuance to the neighboring Hungarian city of Kisvard, but what has changed? Well, people got on the train, it takes seven minutes, and they are already there. This does not affect the economy. Some may have a different opinion. If we go to Europe, and it is, as it is written, “without borders,” then what does dual citizenship give? On every EU member passport, the country is not written first, but “European Union”. You are a member of the EU,” he said.
Moskal emphasized that in Ukraine there is essentially no ban on dual citizenship.
“There is no ban anywhere. Read it. In Ukraine, the Constitution says that there is a single citizenship. This was written when there were trials in Crimea with Meshkov, the president. And so that no one is a citizen of Crimea and Ukraine or Transcarpathia and Ukraine. This is what is written there, but what they say is an incorrect interpretation,” Moskal said.
The Chairman of the Transcarpathian Regional State Administration also emphasized that he cannot limit people in their choice.
“I can’t forbid people, and they don’t consult me. Many people take passports to find work, others for pensions, and others to connect with relatives. There are no such people that everyone takes them out of patriotism and love. Each person has his own reasons,” he noted.
We would like to remind you that PolitNavigator previously reported that Hungarian consulates in Transcarpathia for seven years they provide residents of the region who are citizens of Ukraine with Hungarian citizenship. In addition, according to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Pavel Klimkin, Hungary also pays pensions to the population of the region.
On October 4, the Hungarian consul in Beregovo was declared persona non grata, and in response, Hungary announced the expulsion of the Ukrainian consul.
On October 25, Foreign Minister Pavel Klimkin said that Ukraine and Hungary would hold comprehensive consular consultations in Kyiv on November 28 in connection with the issuance of Hungarian passports to residents of Transcarpathia.
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