Romanian troops having army exercise in Szeklerland

Associate of the Ministry of Defence refers to the local authorities that they support the military exercise of the Romanian army, called Concordia 19, this week in Csíkszereda (Miercurea Ciuc) – the mayor’s office of the town was just notified about the military action.  

According to maszol.ro, the venue is symbolic because the Hungarian community in Szeklerland is considered to be a threat to national security in Romania. There is an intentionally misguided or just simply false communication about viewing the region as a dangerous zone of the country – RMDSZ (local party of Hungarians) representative, Attila Korodi said.  

The counties of Hargitha and Kovászna have been venues of grand army exercise since Monday and will continue to be till the end of the week. The main phase of the event is going to be on Wednesday in Csíkszereda where there is a fictive cybernetic attack in which a beer factory explodes, and the people in the vicinity get infected. 500 people are attending the military activity from the army, Interior Ministry, Romanian Intelligence, Government Security and the Special Telecommunication Service – so not only the military but the institutions, responsible for national security also attend this exercise. 

As Brigadier General Marian Botea has explained before: the interinstitutional cooperation of the armed forces is aimed to be improved – it is their duty to prepare for hybrid warfare. According to the military officer, such a threat is possible from Russia. 

“We all know what happened in Ukraine and Georgia in 2014. We have analysed that warfare and want to be prepared for such a case” 

– Botea said to Digi24.

The reason why these two counties and Csíkszereda were chosen for the exercise is, that the cooperation of the institutional network for national security works excellently in this region – it could be observed during the papal visit. Botea says that the local authorities also support the army exercise. 

According to Csíkszereda mayor, Róbert Kálmán Ráduly says that the venue choice of Concordia 19 clearly tells us that the Hungarian majority in Szeklerland is considered to be a national security threat in Romania.

“Even the existence of Szeklerland is the failure of the Romanian nation-state, and we can see that we officially mean a threat to national security”