Hungarians in Transcarpathia decided to demand from Kyiv territorial autonomy
Authorized the Hungarian community of Transcarpathia said that they have plans to offer the leadership of Ukraine to conclude an agreement On territorial autonomy.
for reviews of commissioners of the Hungarian community, the Ukrainian leadership does not comply with the law in the field of protection of rights of national minorities. Such decisions were taken in the course of three forums of national minorities, held in Transcarpathia, write " Details ". The event was discussed the agreement On special economic, administrative and cultural authority of the Hungarian community, which in the near future will be submitted to the Cabinet and the presidential administration of Ukraine. The Hungarian participants of the forum told that if the government decides to grant autonomy to the Crimean Tatars, minorities and regions Such As the Donbass, was also unable to be Autonomous." The authorities need to move to contractual relationships with communities such As the Hungarians, most importantly, in the field of economy and budgetary regulation in the sphere of education, culture and development of territories of compact residence of these national minorities ", - said the Commissioner of the Democratic Union of Hungarians of Ukraine, one of the leaders of the public organization the Union of correspondents of the Hungarian Transcarpathia Chaba Balogh. The Hungarian community in the Transcarpathian region supported the expansion of their rights during the territories of compact residence in Ukraine." Our MPs, our Commissioners had for several years their deputies in the Ukrainian Parliament from the Hungarian community. They tried to ensure that Transcarpathian Hungarians were granted autonomy. But somehow We are not getting expansion right ", - noted he. About the need for the extension of rights to self-government during the territory of compact residence of Hungarians also said the head of the Democratic Union of Hungarians of Ukraine, ex-MP Mikhail Tovt. The head of the Union of Hungarian writers of Transcarpathia Elemir Kevsegi, explaining the initiative of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko for the Crimean Tatar autonomy, said: "I think It's funny. Why given autonomy when our government is No longer there, And not given 25 years ago? And what of the Crimean Tatars is better than Romanians, Gagauz, Bulgarians, Hungarians? Why not give all aboriginal, who live compactly and autonomy? That would be a step forward, And This is a step back. It is populism ". Former Minister of foreign Affairs of Ukraine Leonid Kozhara, explaining the need for administrative-territorial reform, drew attention: "I think that autonomy is necessary and the Donbass, and not only. We are talking about the reform of decentralization, But decentralization is occurring? No, not happening ". In addition, the diplomat said that if the Government took the policy of decentralization, it is obliged to give all rights to the regions, " the centre is obliged to feed from the fields, And not Vice versa ".
Director of the Center for national minorities of Ioannina Salmina supported the proposals of the forum participants: "the State periodically and not only violates its own law and Constitution in this area, But also the international legal acts ". Remember, Ukrainian regions have begun to demand the implementation of decentralization. For contractual relations with Kiev was made by the Poltava, Odesa, Zhytomyr and Kirovohrad regional councils. In addition, in April deputies of the regional Council of Transcarpathia, adopted at the plenary meeting of the appeal to the Kiev, which also wanted to get from the leadership of Ukraine to grant autonomy to the region. On 28 June the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has made the initiative of inestistente to the Constitution to provide rights of the Crimean Tatars to self-determination of Ukraine. As noted by experts, offering some autonomy to the Crimean Tatars, Poroshenko forgets About the right of Russians to self-determination. On 20 June the coordinator of the Council of the Assembly of the Romanians of Bukovina Dorin Chirtoaca said that the Assembly of the Romanians of Bukovina called on the President of Ukraine to grant the territory of compact residence of the Romanians in Chernivtsi region status of territorial autonomy. In July the Bulgarian Diaspora of Ukraine appealed to Poroshenko to grant territorial autonomy in the Odessa and Kherson areas.
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