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President-elect: ‘Hungary’s heart beating at Ukraine border’
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Refugees fleeing from the war in Ukraine “feel that Hungary’s heart is now beating at the Hungarian-Ukrainian border”, Katalin Novák, the president-elect, said in an interview published by daily Magyar Nemzet on Friday.
“What we can give them is safety, well-organised services, and peace,” Novák said. “We Hungarians are on the side of peace and wish to stay out of the war,” Novák said. “We’re not doing this to help refugees gain recognition in international politics or the media but because this is what our heart dictates.”
Novák said that in Transcarpathia, in western Ukraine, it had “never been easy to be Hungarian” in the past hundred years. “Much of what they have built up with much help from the motherland — Hungarian kindergartens, schools, churches, homes — may be emptied because of the war.
The good word, the loving gesture, and material help is now needed for their survival, and our message is: you can count on us.”