On Tuesday, the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs asked the Hungarian ambassador in Bucharest to inform him: in Romania, all twenty national minorities can freely use their symbols, but there is no territorial administrative unit called "so-called Székelyföld" in the country, which would create a legal basis for the use of a specific official symbol.
The statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bucharest strongly disapproves of Monday's Facebook post by the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Hungarian Parliament, according to which, as they write, "Romania allegedly restricts the right to use the flag of the so-called Székelyföld".
Zsolt Németh shared a previous photo on his social media page of the Székely flag displayed on the Budafok-Tétény town hall, and under the photo he wrote: "The Székely flag will fly on the facades of Hungarian public institutions until the Romanian state allows its free use without restrictions throughout Romania. Come on, Szeklers! Come on, Transylvania!"
According to the Bucharest Communiqué, on the instructions of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bogdan Aurescu, the head of Hungary's foreign mission in Bucharest was asked on Tuesday to inform him of the Romanian position, according to which there is no legal basis for the use of the symbols of the "so-called Székelyland".
The full article of Magyar Nemzet can be read here.
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