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UPDATE 1-Hungary to block Ukraine’s NATO membership over language law

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UPDATE 1-Hungary to block Ukraine's NATO membership over language lawHungary’s foreign minister on Wednesday said Budapest would block Ukraine’s membership in NATO until Kiev restored the rights that ethnic Hungarians had before a language law curbed minorities’ access to education in their mother tongues. Hungary has clashed with Ukraine over what it says are curbs on the rights of roughly 150,000 ethnic Hungarians to use their native tongue, especially in education, after Ukraine passed a law in 2017 restricting the use of minority languages. “We ask for no extra rights to Hungarians in Transcarpathia, only those rights they had before,” Szijjarto told state news agency MTI at the NATO summit in London.

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