The Romanians would again tell us what we can (not) do: "Hungary cannot form the right to represent Hungarians across the border"

According to the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hungary cannot form the right to represent Hungarians across the border, it can only maintain cultural relations with citizens of Hungarian ethnicity living in other states.

According to a statement issued on Friday evening

a state secretary of the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs raised an objection with the Hungarian ambassador in Bucharest against a Facebook post by Katalin Novák, who was on a private visit to Transylvania, on the same day in Hungarian and English, in which the president of the republic reported that he had met Kelemen Hunor, the president of the RMDSZ, the deputy prime minister of Romania.

"As President of the Republic, I consider it my priority to represent all Hungarians, so for me it makes no difference whether someone lives here or across the border. Hungarian is Hungarian, that's all," Katalin Novák wrote on her social media page.

Referring to international law, the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs evaluated it as follows: no state can form any law in relation to the citizens of other states.

"The responsibility for respecting the ethnic, cultural, religious and linguistic rights of Romanian citizens of Hungarian ethnicity rests primarily on Romania, whose citizens, as a related state (mother country), Hungary can only be interested in strengthening cultural relations, as the Venice Commission the Report issued in 2001 on the preferential treatment provided by the mother states, as well as the 2001 declaration of the OSCE High Commissioner for Minorities entitled "Sovereignty, responsibility and national minorities" can be read in the Bucharest announcement.

According to the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the statement of the President of the Hungarian Republic does not meet European standards and is not in line with the spirit of the Hungarian-Romanian basic agreement signed in Timisoara in 1996, nor the Hungarian-Romanian 21st century strategic partnership declaration signed twenty years ago.

Romania continues to insist on maintaining pragmatic relations with Hungary, for the benefit of Romanian and Hungarian citizens, regardless of their ethnicity, the Romanian foreign affairs statement points out.

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I would quietly draw the attention of the representatives of the "state we won in Trianon in Romania" that:

One: the majority of Hungarians across the border are also Hungarian citizens, so they can be represented de jure by the Hungarian head of state.

Two: all-Hungarianness is primarily a cultural issue, which is also why Katalin Novák is right.

Three: ethnicity has nothing to do with state borders. Katalin Novák is entitled to represent all Hungarians.

The nation is one! We are of the same blood!

Source: Felvidek.ma

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