"We Hungarians, wherever we are in the world, we belong together," said Péter Szilágyi, Ministerial Commissioner for National Policy at the Prime Minister's Office, in his commemorative speech on Sunday at the inauguration of the Trianon monument held in Los Angeles, California, in the United States on Sunday local time.
" We, Hungarians, can say about ourselves that being members of a Hungarian nation is full of feelings, actions, and the desire to get to know our fellow citizens as much as possible, and to pass on our common knowledge to the younger generation," declared the ministerial commissioner in Los Angeles organized by the San Fernando Valley Hungarian Reformed Church on the occasion of National Unity Day .
Péter Szilágyi added:
we can be grateful to the generations that preceded us, living lives full of trials, that we are still here 101 years after Trianon.
He emphasized that national unity could not be realized without the sacrificial work of communities operating in the diaspora. In his speech, he thanked the San Fernando Valley Hungarian Reformed Church for continuing to perpetuate our Hungarian language and cultural values for the younger generations even in a foreign environment.
" Christian and national unity is also present on the west coast of the United States of America, the spiritually growing community can greet today with a strong identity and a solid and healthy national consciousness," said the politician.
According to Péter Szilágyi, the period during the coronavirus epidemic also proved the unity of the Hungarian people, because we were able to overcome the epidemic by helping each other, with continuous contact and the strength of unity.
He emphasized that with this cooperation, Hungarianness can remain even across the ocean.
„Neither the centuries-old territorial division nor the distance from the old homeland can break the unity of Hungarians living all over the world based on national and Christian values”
he added.
" The Act of Witnessing in Support of National Unity, which came into effect on June 4, 2010 - in addition to commemorating the national tragedy - calls us to work on strengthening national unity, drawing strength from the examples of collaborations of the past century and the results of national renewal," he stated . .
He also pointed out that thanks to the simplified naturalization procedure introduced since 2010, many Hungarians living abroad were able to take the oath of Hungarian citizenship.
On May 31, 2010, the National Assembly declared June 4, the day of the signing of the Trianon peace decree that ended the First World War, as the Day of National Unity. XLV of 2010 on this. law stated:
„all members and communities of Hungarians under the authority of several states are part of the unified Hungarian nation, whose unity across state borders is a reality and at the same time a defining element of Hungarians' personal and community identity”.
At the commemoration organized by the Hungarian Reformed Church of the San Fernando Valley, the Trianon monument dreamed up by Pál Hunor, a master woodcarver from Marosvásárhely, was inaugurated, and state awards were presented.
Source: MTI / hirado.hu
