According to the President of Hungary, the protest of the Foreign Ministry of Romania after the statements of the President of Hungary during his visit to Transylvania is exaggerated and unjustified, but it is not unusual, writes Mandiner.hu on Monday.

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”. To the right of the pillar, the president of Hungary wrote a verse of Székel’s hymn: “Don’t let Transylvania perish, our God.”

Mandiner.hu contacted the Hungarian presidency, which responded to the publication that the protest by the Romanian Foreign Ministry was excessive and unjustified, but not unusual.

According to the reaction of the Hungarian presidency, the post in question – which was inspired by a Szekler hymn sung during the pilgrimage from Šumuleu Čuk – can still be found on the president’s social media page. In the end, the president quoted the greetings of the Transylvanian reformers: “Peace from God!”, reports Hirado.hu.

On Saturday, several hundred thousand people took part in the great Catholic pilgrimage on the day of Pentecost from Shumuleu Chuk. The event was also attended by the President of Hungary, Novak Katalin, 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.

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.