Hungary's Minister of Foreign Affairs Peter Szijjarto demands that the Ukrainian authorities investigate an incident with a Hungarian flag torn down by members of the Svoboda Party from the Town Hall's buildings in Berehove, Zakarpattia region, the west of Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian news outlet Evropeiska Pravda with reference to Hirado.hu.
"The perpetrators should be detained and punished as soon as possible," the minister said at a press conference held on the sidelines of EU foreign ministers in Brussels on Monday, November 13, Evropeiska Pravda said.
Ukraine's Ambassador to Hungary will also be summoned over the incident, he added.
Szijjarto insisted that "such developments cannot be tolerated in a country aspiring for European integration."
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Zakarpattia regional governor Hennadiy Moskal said in a comment that such incidents are inadmissible in the multi-ethnic region. The political forces that staged the act of provocation have no support in the region, he added.
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