We must draw attention to all the injustices that have happened to us, and we must build on what cannot be taken from us: our Hungarianness, our culture and our mother tongue - stated János Árpád Potápi, the State Secretary of the Prime Minister's Office responsible for national policy, on Friday in Nagyszelmenc in the highlands, where he delivered a welcome speech with the support of the State Secretariat for National Policy on handing over the developments implemented there.
in the part of the village of Szelmenc divided by the Slovak-Ukrainian border on the Slovak side, in Nagyszelmenc.
János Árpád Potápi, in his speech at the ceremonial handover, recalled the history of the settlement that was torn from the motherland by the Trianon peace decree and then split into two after 1945, and the resulting tragedy of its inhabitants, pointing out: the great powers made decisions hidden in the slogans of justice, but in the meantime they sacrificed human lives without caring about the people living there destinies.
"Whenever foreign powers try to set an example through us, or assert their hidden interests at the expense of our nation, such and similar tragedies happen," emphasized János Árpád Potápi. He added: it is no longer possible to deliver justice, but we must call attention to all injustices, and at the same time, we must humbly build from what is still possible, what they could not take away, that is, from our Hungarianness, culture, and language.
The state secretary highlighted: the Hungarian government has been working in this spirit since 2010, the national policy pays special attention to the support of mother-tongue education, and the increase in the number of Hungarian children enrolled in Hungarian schools can be counted as a huge success.
"For the past ten years, our nation's cross-border, systemic support has been continuous. Thanks to this, we are increasingly starting to transform the Carpathian basin into a unified educational, economic and cultural space", stated János Árpád Potápi.
The State Secretary for National Policy also handed over newly completed developments in the nearby Kaposkelecsény, where a kindergarten playground and a local landscape house were created, and a minibus was also handed over.
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Photo: Tamás Óváry
