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EU negotiations with Ukraine will stop if Kyiv fails to fulfil the agreement on restoring the rights of the Hungarian national minority in Zakarpattia Oblast, Hungarian Foreign Minister Anita Orbán has said.

Source: European Pravda, citing Telex, a Hungarian news portal

Details: Foreign Minister Orbán, who arrived for a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg on 15 June, said: "If the Ukrainian state fails to fulfil this agreement, then the accession process within the first group [the first cluster – ed.] of chapters will automatically stop".

She recalled that, following several weeks of intensive negotiations, Hungary and Ukraine had concluded a bilateral agreement enshrining the rights of the Hungarian minority. According to Orbán, this agreement had been incorporated into Ukraine's EU accession process.