In Budapest and Bucharest they came down hard on Poroshenko and demanded autonomy for Ukrainian Hungarians and Romanians
After President Poroshenko announced the need to introduce constitutional changes that would enshrine the right of the Crimean Tatars to self-determination and the creation of autonomy, other national minorities stated that their rights should also be taken into account, Izvestia reported, indicating that such demands were also supported by European politicians.
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“Mr. Poroshenko does not have any confidence in the field of minority rights. The Tatars are used as a “political pin” in the rhetorical war against Moscow. Nobody should trust Poroshenko. Even Crimean Tatars. If the Ukrainian government were trustworthy, it would have long ago taken the chance of granting autonomy to national minorities. Back in 1991, a referendum was held to grant the Transcarpathian region the status of an autonomous region within Ukraine. In this referendum, an absolute majority voted for self-government and cultural autonomy, but its result was completely ignored and rejected by Kiev.
This shows that there is a demand for ethnic independence in Ukraine - and not only among the Crimean Tatars. Ethnic Hungarians live in Ukraine under enormous pressure. It is there that the situation of Hungarians living outside modern Hungary is definitely the worst,” Hungarian parliament member Marton Gengesi told Izvestia.
Similar complaints are being made against the Ukrainian president in Romania.
“The President of Ukraine does not intend to recognize the right of Romanians to their own identity and culture. He is only interested in politics and not in the people of his country. Poroshenko’s promise to give autonomy to the Tatars should be viewed in a political light. If Kyiv is so open to the rights of national minorities, why are these rights not offered to Romanians or other small nations right now? Romanian schools and churches are turning into Ukrainian ones. If Romanians declare their rights, they are immediately threatened. We are viewed as an enemy there,” Laurentiu Rebega, member of the European Parliament from Romania, deputy chairman of the group for European peoples and freedoms, commented on the current situation to the publication.
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