BUDAPEST — Hungary and Ukraine will begin high-level consultations on the rights of Ukraine's ethnic Hungarian minority. The talks will address long-standing disputes over language and education policies affecting roughly 100,000 ethnic Hungarians living in Ukraine's Zakarpattia region.

"Expert-level consultations aimed at resolving the rights of the Hungarian minority will begin as soon as this week," Hungarian Foreign Minister Anita Orbán said. "The talks will form an important foundation for the prompt and reassuring settlement of minority rights issues," she added.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha signaled a willingness to reset the bilateral relationship. "Ready to open a new, mutually beneficial chapter in Ukrainian-Hungarian relations without delay," Sybiha said.

The consultations follow a change of government in Budapest. In April, the center-right Tisza party won Hungary's parliamentary election and Péter Magyar became prime minister.

Under former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Hungary refused to provide Ukraine with money or weapons to assist in its defense against Russia's full-scale invasion. His government also blocked European Union funding for Ukraine, held up sanctions against Moscow and threatened to impede Ukraine's efforts to join the EU.

The former prime minister justified many of those policies by citing restrictions on language and education rights for ethnic Hungarians in Zakarpattia. In the lead-up to the April election, his government ran a campaign that depicted Ukraine as an existential threat to Hungary's economy and security.

The minority rights dispute traces in part to 2017, when Ukraine passed a law requiring Ukrainian to be the language of study past the fifth grade. The measure angered Romanian, Bulgarian and Hungarian minorities in Ukraine.