The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that it had contacted the Hungarian ambassador in Bucharest after “inappropriate public messages were made public” during a private visit to Romania by President Novak Catalin. On Saturday, Novak Katalin took part in the Catholic Pentecost procession from Shumuleu Chuk, posting a video on Facebook with the “Hymn of Sekelshchyna”.

On Saturday, several hundred thousand people took part in the great Catholic pilgrimage on the day of Pentecost from Shumuleu Chuk. A resident of Hungary, Novak Katalin, was also present at the event, who was greeted by a large crowd of pilgrims with applause, reports Agerpres. Novak Katalin accompanied the official procession of priests and pilgrims led by the holy banner of Sumuleu, Laborum, which marched in front of the Franciscan church in Sumuleu-Chuk.

Among the pilgrims in the official procession were former President of Hungary Ader Janos with his wife, who participates in the event every year, Vice Prime Minister of Hungary Semien Zholt, Vice Prime Minister Kelemen Hunor, ministers Tanchos Barna. and Eduard Novak, as well as other representatives of the Hungarian community in Romania or officials from Budapest.

“Don’t let Transylvania perish, our God!”

Then Katalin Novak posted a video of the “Hymn of Sekelshchyna” on Facebook along with a line from the song: “Don’t let Transylvania perish, our God!”.

The reaction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania

On Sunday evening, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that it had contacted the Hungarian ambassador in Bucharest after “inappropriate public messages were published during the private visit of President Novak Catalin to our country”:

• “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania immediately contacted the Ambassador of Hungary in Romania and expressed its strong disapproval of the fact that, despite repeated calls from the Romanian side to exercise restraint in public statements and messages in the context of private visits of Hungarian officials and politicians to Romania, and in In the context of the visit, inappropriate public messages such as those targeting the historical region of Romania were launched these days.”

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania also states that such reports do not correspond to good neighborly and cooperative relations between Romania and Hungary.

• “In this context, it was also stated that such statements do not correspond to the desired promotion of pragmatic relations, good neighborliness and cooperation between the two countries, which is the direct interest of the citizens of Romania and Hungary, regardless of ethnicity, as well as the spirit of the Treaty on Mutual Understanding, Cooperation and Good Neighborliness between Romania and the Republic of Hungary (signed in Timisoara on September 16, 1996) and the Declaration on Strategic Partnership between the Government of Romania and the Government of the Republic of Hungary for Europe of the 21st Century (adopted in Budapest on November 29, 2002),” the MFA adds.