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Hungary expects Romania to restore WWI cemetery, says Foreign Minister
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The Hungarian government expects Romania’s authorities to restore the Valea Uzului (Úzvölgy) military cemetery “to its original state”, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in parliament on Tuesday.
In agreement with Romania’s ethnic Hungarian RMDSZ party, the government considers restoration of the shrine “the only acceptable decision”, Szijjártó said.
At the cemetery, containing the graves of Hungarian first world war soldiers, the local council has erected a memorial site for Romanian soldiers fallen in the second world war. This has seen the erection of 52 concrete crosses and one large Orthodox cross in the fenced-off cemetery site holding the graves of some 600 soldiers of Austria-Hungary.
Ahead of the site’s inauguration last Thursday, the visitors of that event clashed with Szekler demonstrators and eventually forced their way into the cemetery.
The Hungarian government’s position is that last Thursday’s incident and developments that triggered it are unacceptable, Szijjártó said in response to an address by a lawmaker of the allied ruling Christian Democrats.