Hungarian Speaker Kövér urges UN to recognise national identity as a universal human right – UPDATED
The United Nations should initiate admission of the right to national identity among the latest generation of universal human rights, László Kövér, Speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly, said in Budapest on Thursday, addressing the Interparliamentary Conference on Cultural Heritage and the Identity of National Communities.
The right to national identity, which Hungary’s parliament included in a resolution in June 2022, is the right of every person to freely inherit their mother tongue and culture from their ancestors and to freely pass it on to their children, Kövér said.
This could be a useful legal tool for the protection of general human dignity, which could strengthen ethnic peace, security and stability, not only in the Carpathian Basin or Europe, but everywhere in the world, Kövér told the conference held on 4-5 December as the closing event in the series of parliamentary events linked to the Hungarian EU presidency.
Implementing this proposal could advance the provision of human rights and the strengthening of democracy across the world, and in Europe, it would strengthen not only ethnic minorities, but the cooperation of European nation-states and thereby the European Union, the Speaker said.
UPDATE: Hungary to return to a sustainable growth path, says Kövér
The government’s new economic policies will set Hungary on a sustainable growth path, Laszlo Kover, the speaker of parliament, said on a campaign stop on Thursday in Janoshalma, in southern Hungary, to promote the National Consultation public survey, adding that annual growth of 3-6 percent could be expected going forward. This would be “at least twice the average growth of the European Union”, he said, adding that Hungary would continue on the path towards catching up with the rest of Europe.
The wage agreement struck in recent weeks would help average pay to reach 1 million forints within the foreseeable future, he said. Mass tourism has put upward pressure on house prices, he noted, so many Hungarians, especially young people in Budapest, cannot afford their own homes, adding that the budget also promotes cheap housing.
Kover also emphasised the importance of preserving the purchasing value of pensions and retirement benefits, especially the 13th month pension. Meanwhile, small and medium-sized enterprises, making up more than two-thirds of the economy, deserved support for recapitalisation, if needed, to undergird their growth prospects. With these measures Hungary would return to a sustainable growth path, he concluded.
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Does that apply to Ukrainians who are now being ethnically cleansed in the territory that Russia took over where they are forced to take Russian passports and every part of their cultural identity is erased? Kover will you speak up for the Ukrainian identity of your close neighbour or is your campaign only designed for Hungarians and your propaganda campaign against the Ukrainian state?
Life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness are the only basic, universal human rights. Everything else you work for or negotiate. Enough already with everything being a “human right.”
Haha. How old are you michael? Did you know that education and healtcare are also human rights? You are paying for it with your taxes!