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Foreign minister: Romanian PM’s remarks regarding Hungarian autonomy ‘unacceptable’
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Recent remarks by Romanian Prime Minister Mihai Tudose concerning Hungarian autonomy efforts are “completely unacceptable and incompatible with European values and the 21st century”, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Friday.
The Romanian ambassador in Budapest has been summoned to the foreign ministry in connection with the remarks, he added.
In the interest of ethnic Hungarian communities in Romania, the Hungarian government has always tried to build Hungarian-Romanian bilateral relations founded on mutual trust, Szijjártó told a press conference. This has been met with various degrees of reciprocity by the various Romanian governments, he added.
It is beyond doubt that the recent remarks by the Romanian prime minister which involved “basically threatening a national community and its representatives with execution are completely unacceptable,” he added.
It is “beyond question” that the Romanian government and the prime minister must work to resolve the situation immediately, Szijjártó said.
The Romanian ambassador was summoned to the foreign ministry on Friday morning and the deputy minister “made the Hungarian government’s position clear to him”. The ambassador tried to present “a kind of linguistic explanation” of the remarks, Szijjártó added.
Asked if the Hungarian government thought it was worthwhile engaging in a debate on Hungarian autonomy efforts when the Romanian government opposes autonomy, Szijjártó said the debate was a legitimate one, arguing that it had been initiated in a lawful manner by political parties in Romania. This is a debate that can be had in a civilised manner, the minister said.
Asked about potential economic consequences Romania could face if Tudose did not apologise for his remarks, Szijjártó said: “Let’s wait and see what Romania’s political leaders say and do about this.”
The minister said he was in constant dialogue with the ethnic Hungarian RMDSZ party on the matter. He added that “despite all the fluctuations in Hungarian-Romanian political cooperation” over the recent period, bilateral economic and trade ties have been expanding. “We hope that these kinds of uncivilised remarks don’t cause any problems in the everyday context,” Szijjártó said.
As a historian, a native Transylvanian, I am not at all surprised at the ‘Romanian PM’s Barbarian words, because all the so-called ‘Latins’ (as ‘Romanians’ called themselves…?) have nothing to do with ‘ROME’ being ‘Orthodox’ of Greek-Bulgarian and Serbian-Russian faith…The ‘Romanians’ (Rom^ni) have the roots in North Greece (Macedonia, ‘Romania’…), Serbia and Bulgaria and – after 1800 -, in the huge Ukrainian (Ruthenian) migrants towards Transylvania. It was THEIR majority who decided, gathered at the outskirts of the great Transylvanian cities, to be on the FRENCH political trend and economic interests in this strategic region called today ‘Romania’… In the great Transylvanian Principality was never a REFERENDUM in 1918, and nowadays it is just useless and too late…We, the extinct old native ones, lost our properties, lives and our real history!… Thank you FRANCE, Thank you ‘Europe’!…
And what do the bureaucrats in Brussels have to say about this? I hope the donkeys ass’ comments are publicized!