The rights of national minorities are respected in Romania, which is an example of this, and it is in our interests that minorities can live their culture and speak their native language, President Klaus Iohannis said at a joint press conference held with the President of Hungary. , Katalin Novak. “And by the way, we agreed together that it’s good for him to use his Romanian language,” Iohannis said.

• “The rights of all national minorities are respected in Romania. Even more, in Romania there is an example that I think we can present with pride, national minorities are represented in the parliament, even if quantitatively, by voting, they do not get as many votes as required for the mandate. This is called positive discrimination.
• On the other hand, it is in our common interest that the rights of Hungarian minorities are fully respected, that they can live their culture, that they can use their native language.
• And by the way, we agreed together that it’s good for him to use his Romanian language,” Iohannis said.

He also said that there are politicians who want to shine by exacerbating ethnic tensions, so most of the tensions are artificial, “publicly fueled by politicians who want to exploit some of the existing differences for themselves.”

President of Hungary: We agreed that we want to reduce the existing tension, not increase it

In a statement at the end of talks with Klaus Iohannis, the Hungarian president said they agreed that Romania and Hungary were interested in having “good, pragmatic bilateral relations”.

Katalin Novak reminded that no Hungarian president had visited Romania in 12 years, saying that she also invited Klaus Iohannis to Budapest, and the visit will take place in the next period.

• “Hungary and Romania are interested and interested in good, pragmatic bilateral relations. We are neighboring countries and therefore we need the relations between Romania and Hungary to work. We agreed that we wanted to reduce the existing tension, not increase it.
• We will not agree on everything, but the most important thing is to listen to each other and understand the other’s point of view in order to reduce this tension.
• We need cooperation, but we know that we will not agree on all aspects,” said the Hungarian president.