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Romania’s foreign ministry frowns on Hungarian ambassador for Orban scarf

The Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed disapproval of the Hungarian ambassador over President Viktor Orban’s scarf with a map of “Greater Hungary”, which includes the territory of modern Romania. This has been reported Press office Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Mr. Orban, wearing a scarf with the image of “Greater Hungary”, appeared in public on Nov. 20 at a football match between the national teams of Greece and Hungary. The Romanian foreign ministry noted that the president’s gesture contrasts with “the atmosphere of openness and resumption of bilateral dialogue”. The ministry recalled the recent visit of the Romanian foreign minister to Budapest for consultations with his Hungarian counterpart and the Hungarian prime minister.

“Any revisionist manifestation, in whatever form it may be accepted, is unacceptable,” the communiqué underlines. According to Romanian diplomats, relations between the countries should be built on the basis of the Treaty of Understanding, Cooperation and Good Neighborhood between Romania and the Republic of Hungary, signed in Timisoara on September 16, 1996.

“Greater Hungary” is the hypothetical ancestral homeland of the Hungarians, mentioned in the account of his journey by the 13th-century Franciscan friar Giovanni da Plano Carpini. In modern politics, the term “Greater Hungary” is used to refer to the lands that were part of the Kingdom of Hungary. Among them are the territories of modern Romania, Ukraine, Slovakia, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia adjacent to the Hungarian borders. The Kingdom of Hungary lost these lands on 4 June 1920 under the terms of the Treaty of Trianon.

According to the 2011 census (.PDFlisten), Hungarians are the largest ethnic minority in Romania, accounting for 6.1% of the country’s population.

Erdni Kagaltynov

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