布达佩斯，10月2日——匈牙利周五对乌克兰向议会提交旨在加强其境内匈牙利族少数民族教育权利的法案草案表示欢迎。
BUDAPEST, Oct 2 - Hungary welcomed on Friday Ukraine's move to submit draft legislation to parliament that strengthens the education rights of its ethnic Hungarian minority.
关于少数民族权利的长期争端曾使布达佩斯与基辅之间的关系紧张，并复杂化了匈牙利对乌克兰加入欧盟这一目标的支持。
A long-running dispute over minority rights had strained ties between Budapest and Kyiv and complicated Hungary’s support for Ukraine’s ambition to join the European Union.
匈牙利总理彼得·马扎尔在脸书帖子中表示：“该法案加强了匈牙利语教育的法律保障以及教育机构网络。”
"The bill strengthens the legal guarantees of education in the Hungarian language, and the network of educational institutions," Prime Minister Peter Magyar said in a Facebook post.
马扎尔对基辅的立场比其前任维克托·欧尔班更为缓和，但他同样表示，提高乌克兰境内约10万名匈牙利族人的权利是布达佩斯支持乌克兰加入欧盟的先决条件。
Magyar has taken a less confrontational stance towards Kyiv than his predecessor Viktor Orban, but he too has said that progress on boosting the rights of some 100,000 ethnic Hungarians in Ukraine is a prerequisite for Budapest's backing of Ukraine's EU accession.
匈牙利外交部长阿尼塔·欧尔班（与前总理无亲属关系）周五表示，乌克兰副总理弗谢沃洛德·琴特索夫已告知她，关于教育权利的法案将提交乌克兰议会，预计本月将作出决定。
Hungary's Foreign Minister Anita Orban - no relation of the former prime minister - said on Friday that Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Vsevolod Chentsov had informed her that the bill on education rights would be submitted to the Ukrainian parliament with a decision expected this month.
欧尔班在脸书帖子中写道：“我们欢迎这一举措，此前几周双方举行了匈牙利-乌克兰专家级双边会谈，并与外喀尔巴阡匈牙利社区的代表进行了磋商。”
"We welcome this step, which was preceded by bilateral Hungarian-Ukrainian expert-level talks in recent weeks and consultations with representatives of the Transcarpathian Hungarian community," Orban wrote in a Facebook post.
这一举措紧随马扎尔六月份的声明之后，当时他表示匈牙利和乌克兰已就乌克兰境内匈牙利少数民族的语言、文化和教育权利达成协议。
This step follows a June announcement from Magyar that Hungary and Ukraine had reached an agreement on the language, cultural and educational rights of the Hungarian minority in Ukraine.
马扎尔当时表示，一旦乌克兰将该协议的条款以及其加入欧盟谈判的行动计划纳入立法，匈牙利将支持启动乌克兰入盟谈判的第一个议题组。马扎尔多次表示，他的政府不支持加速乌克兰的入盟谈判。
At the time Magyar said that once Ukraine enshrines the terms of that agreement in legislation, as well as its action plan for its EU accession talks, Hungary would support the opening of the first cluster of Ukraine's accession talks. Magyar has repeatedly said his government does not support accelerated membership talks for Ukraine.