On 23 August 2015 the Hungarian State Secretary for Justice said that Hungary supports the Tallinn declaration calling for the establishment of a supranational institution to investigate and prosecute state crimes, including those of communist regimes.
Secretary of State Róbert Répássy took part in a conference marking the European Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Stalinism and Nazism, attended by representatives from the Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland and Portugal.
Signatories to the document expressed support for standing up together against totalitarian regimes, irrespective of their ideological foundations or the form they take.
He said that it was declared that the victims of totalitarian crimes have the right to justice, noting that in certain countries the practice of investigating and prosecuting the crimes committed by communist regimes has been insufficient and inconsistent.
The participants also declared that the competence of the existing supranational courts fails to include the investigation of past crimes committed by communist regimes and the punishment of perpetrators.
“The signatories find it necessary to investigate the possibility of setting up an international institution specialising in investigating the crimes of totalitarian regimes – including communism – similar to the one investigating and punishing the perpetrators of Nazi crimes”, said Secretary of State Répássy.
Signatories call on the governments of all European countries to provide both moral and material support for the investigation of the history of totalitarian regimes and promoting the presentation of results of such investigations, thus preventing the manipulation of historical facts.
Secretary of State Répássy said that the Tallinn declaration has created “a historic opportunity” for exposing communist-era crimes, and for calling perpetrators to account.