Lazar: Govt doing everything to protect Hungarian interests

Anyone who endangers Hungarian interests will find themselves up against the Hungarian state, government office chief Janos Lazar said at his weekly press briefing in connection with the new Ukrainian education law and Romanian policy affecting a school for ethnic Hungarians in Targu Mures (Marosvasarhely). Lazar said the "coarse violation of Hungarian minority rights" was "unacceptable and shameful". He called on the Ukrainian president not to sign the law, adding that the law was "a stab in the back". "Ukraine will lose a friend," he said. The government office chief also said Hungary would withhold its support for Romania's membership of the OECD unless it sought a satisfactory conclusion to the issue of the Hungarian school in Targu Mures.