Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó held talks with President of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (RMDSZ) Hunor Kelemen and Archbishop of Alba Iulia György Jakubinyi on the issue of the Catholic Secondary School in Marosvásárhely (Târgu Mureș).
According to Mr. Szijjártó, the approach and measures of the Chairman of the leading Romanian governing party must be regarded as positive, but it must be realised that the result of these measures is that the students of the Catholic Hungarian School can continue to attend a Hungarian school in future, but the school itself has to all intents and purposes ceased to exist.
We clearly cannot regard this as meaning that “the case has now been put in order”, he said.
We will continue to provide all possible assistance to ensure that the Catholic Hungarian School can continue to operate. To this end we are continuously providing the Hungarian minority living in the city and the Catholic Church with the required legal and public administration advice, the Minister said.
The continued existence of the Hungarian School depends exclusively n the Romanian authorities, he highlighted.
“Until the situation is properly resolved, Hungary is unable to support Romania’s bid for membership of the OECD”, indicated Mr. Szijjártó, who also mentioned that the issue had been on the agenda of every single official contact between Hungary and Romania in recent years.
“Romania did not just find out within the past few days that this is an issue that is important to Hungary”, he declared.