Nemeth: Ukraine election confirms country needs change

The first round of Ukraine's presidential election clearly indicated that the country wants change, Zsolt Nemeth, the head of parliament's foreign affairs committee, said in Brussels on Tuesday. Speaking at a conference on humanitarian and minority rights held in the European Parliament, Nemeth said Hungary also believed Ukraine was in need of political change, both in terms of its relationships with its neighbours and the treatment of its ethnic Hungarian community living in Transcarpathia. He said Ukraine needed to establish peace with Russia in a way that enables its Western integration. But Ukraine will not be able to integrate into the West if it fails to respect the identities of its national minorities, Nemeth added.