Hungary Vetoes NATO Statement on Ukraine Over Minority Rights
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Hungary’s government blocked a joint declaration by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on Ukraine after failing to convince its allies to include a reference to ethnic minorities living in the former Soviet state.
NATO members rejected “several proposals to include clauses that would force Ukraine to give back rights appropriated from the Hungarian community,” Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in a statement Wednesday before a scheduled visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin to Budapest.