“Hungary has always wanted a relationship based on mutual respect with Romania in the interests of the Hungarian community living there”, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Monday morning.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade reacted to the fact that on Wednesday evening the Romanian Prime Minister told news television station Realitatea with relation to Hungarian autonomy aspirations: “My answer is the same as it was when, to mark some day or other, they tried to host the flag. At the time I made it clear that if that flag will be blowing in the wind, the local people responsible will also be hanging up there next to it”.
Szijarto said on Hungarian M1 television’s Monday morning current affairs program, that in 21st century Europe it is totally unacceptable for a complete national community and its leaders to be threatened with hanging and death.
“It is the duty of the Hungarian government to make it clear that a statement of this kind is totally indefeasible and to strike the prime minister of Romania from the list of civilised European politicians”, he said.
