Recognizing Kosovo's independence will not be easy for Hungary, given the facts that Serbia is an immediate neighbor and that a sizable ethnic Hungarian minority population lives there, said Foreign Minister Kinga Goncz in Budapest on Thursday.
After a meeting with her Croatian counterpart Gordan Jandrokovic, she said Kosovo's independence is equally important to Budapest and Zagreb, since both countries have a strong interest in long-term regional stability, according to MTI news agency.
Jandrokovic said his country was paying close attention to happenings in Kosovo but that Croatia, itself a breakaway state from now-defunct Yugoslavia, would wait for most other European Union nations to recognize its independence before it too would doso.
"It is important for us to keep good relationship with Serbia, "Goncz said. Therefore, she continued, Hungary will not be among the first nations to recognize Kosovo's independence, "but will surely do so in the coming weeks."
Hungary has an ethnic minority population of around 350,000 in Serbia, and Goncz said this made recognizing Kosovo a delicate question.
Kosovo declared its independence from Serbian province on Sunday. Kinga Goncz said Monday she would propose the government recognizes Kosovo after its declaration of independence.
Source:Xinhua
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