Romania's Hungarian Minority Supports Kosovo Recognition

| 18 February 2008 |

Bucharest _ Kosovo's declaration of independence was welcomed on Monday by representatives of the Hungarian minority in Romania, who have called for recognition of the former Serbian province.

"Sooner or later Romania will have to recognise Kosovo as a new independent state," Marko Bela, leader of the Democratic Union of the Hungarians in Romania, UDMR, said.

This is at variance with Romania's official position, which is to withold recognition until Kosovo independence is declared to be in conformity with international law.

In a related development, leaders of the Szeklers National Council (CNS), an organisation of ethnic Hungarians in Romania, on Sunday argued that Kosovo's independence signalled European Union support for autonomist movements.

The Romanian press also reported that a group of ethnic Hungarians celebrated Kosovo's independence declaration Sunday night in the northern Romanian city of Cluj. Rally participants carried posters
with slogans such as "Well Done, Kosovo!", "Rights for Minorities", and "Long Live National Autonomy!".

Ethnic Hungarians comprise 6,6 percent of Romania's total population according to official data.

By contrast, representatives of the 30,000 or so ethnic Serbs in Romania echoed officials in Belgrade by expressing opposition to independence for Kosovo and warning that the creation of a new state
in the Balkans "would raise tensions in the region".

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KOSOVO AND SZEKLERS REGION
2008-02-19 09:57:10

The kosovars will get sick of their own country in 2-3 years with this level of coruption ,criminality and unemployment.Now in their minds they have an enemy - Serbia - but their real enemy is the kosovian political class.They will realize this soon. Regarding the Szeklers region in Eastern Transilvania( Harghita and Kovasna counties) they are totally free there to do whatever they want. The problem there is the hungarian speaking population who is oppressing the rumanian population which is in minority in this two counties.The rumanian population has suffered have losses in the 1941-1944 and 1952-1968(during the autonomous Hungarian Mures region existance).I can gave you and example in 1944 in 3 september in the center of the town Gheorgheni(i don't know the hungarian name) - 138 families of rumanians have been decapitated . It is a shame for rumanian government that rumanians are mistreated in their own country and even now- schools in rumanian languange are distroyed in the Eastern Transilvania and orthodox and greco catholic churches are closed only to satisfy the hungarian szeklers demands from that region.Every day bands of hungarians in the hargita and covasna counties are therorizing rumanian population and by using force they are threathening them to leave the harghita and covasna counties. Anywhere else in the romanian Transilvania this is not happening because the hungarians represents less than 15% of the all transilvania region population and they don't behave like in the Szeklers Region( but even if they represent at least 20% from the villages or towns population they have schools in their own languages and the right to use the own language in offical documents).In the Szeklers region they don't even speak romanian language.I cannot explain this behavior of hungarian population there since there was not recorded any aggression against them.(even during the Ceasuescu regime they have schools and high scholls and amaizing they even have a university in hungarian language - the Babes Bolyai University in Targu Mures - Marosvasarhely). The rumanian corupt government has steped back and lost control in the Szeklers region for years ago so i could say the Szeklers autonomous country exist in Romania for at least 15 years even is not mentioned on official documents. The Hungarians from Szeklers region are always complaining in the international press that they are oppreesed there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!which is not true...the hungarians are the oppressors...Their representetives in the romanian government which are members of the hungarian party from Romania(which always get arround 6% of the votes at the national level from the 1,5 mil of hungarians ) are always complaining in the EU Parliamnet that the hungarian population is opressed and mistreated!!!!!!!!!!.. which is a untrue.

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Romania's Hungarian Minority Supports Kosovo Recognition