Post by wbb on Nov 22, 2008 0:48:40 GMT -5
Marko Bela insists to giving Hungarian language compulsory status in Transylvania
UDMR President Marko Bela has stated yesterday that he maintains his proposal regarding the compulsory learning of the Hungarian language in Transylvania, despite the fact that ‘some folks are very irritated,’ the leader of UDMR claiming that the mutual knowledge of cultures and languages would be beneficial to both communities.
Bela, present yesterday in Arcus where he attended the ‘Szekler Land seen differently’ conference, also stated that some would like to witness the death of the law on the minorities’ statute but ‘things are not like that.’ According to Mediafax he stated that ‘some folks are very irritated’ when he launches proposals on new solutions in the inter-ethnic domain.
‘You can perfectly recall what I said about the Hungarian language and how irritated some folks were. That proposal should be adopted in these regions where we live together because it would benefit both communities, including by getting to mutually know our cultures and our languages,’ the UDMR leader said.
At the same time, the UDMR President reiterated that he hopes that the US will get more actively involved in solving the rights of ethnic minorities issue and in pushing through the observance of human rights. When asked about the meaning of the visit that the political attaché of the US Embassy in Romania recently conducted in Covasna County, Bela added that in the 1990s the US had a very active policy in those domains and that he hopes those issues would return on the newly elected President’s agenda and on that of the new administration in Washington. ‘When the Democrat Party recently won the elections in America and Barack Obama became the President I stated that I look forward to seeing a change in that country’s policy when it comes to ethnic rights and human rights issues, in the sense that in the 1990s the US was very active in that domain and was willing to express a positive stance when it came to solving those problems. Later on, in the years that followed, it stopped getting involved and I hope that the new administration will once again get back on track in solving those issues. Not particularly in our case, but in cases located in various parts of the world, because for us at least that involvement proved to be positive,’ the UDMR leader explained.
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UDMR President Marko Bela has stated yesterday that he maintains his proposal regarding the compulsory learning of the Hungarian language in Transylvania, despite the fact that ‘some folks are very irritated,’ the leader of UDMR claiming that the mutual knowledge of cultures and languages would be beneficial to both communities.
Bela, present yesterday in Arcus where he attended the ‘Szekler Land seen differently’ conference, also stated that some would like to witness the death of the law on the minorities’ statute but ‘things are not like that.’ According to Mediafax he stated that ‘some folks are very irritated’ when he launches proposals on new solutions in the inter-ethnic domain.
‘You can perfectly recall what I said about the Hungarian language and how irritated some folks were. That proposal should be adopted in these regions where we live together because it would benefit both communities, including by getting to mutually know our cultures and our languages,’ the UDMR leader said.
At the same time, the UDMR President reiterated that he hopes that the US will get more actively involved in solving the rights of ethnic minorities issue and in pushing through the observance of human rights. When asked about the meaning of the visit that the political attaché of the US Embassy in Romania recently conducted in Covasna County, Bela added that in the 1990s the US had a very active policy in those domains and that he hopes those issues would return on the newly elected President’s agenda and on that of the new administration in Washington. ‘When the Democrat Party recently won the elections in America and Barack Obama became the President I stated that I look forward to seeing a change in that country’s policy when it comes to ethnic rights and human rights issues, in the sense that in the 1990s the US was very active in that domain and was willing to express a positive stance when it came to solving those problems. Later on, in the years that followed, it stopped getting involved and I hope that the new administration will once again get back on track in solving those issues. Not particularly in our case, but in cases located in various parts of the world, because for us at least that involvement proved to be positive,’ the UDMR leader explained.
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