Post by wbb on Mar 3, 2008 3:13:00 GMT -5
Like every year, the disputes between PRM and UDMR deepen around March 15, when the Hungarian community from Romania celebrates “Day of Hungarians from everywhere.” This time it is not PRM leader who attacks, but the party general secretary, Senator Gheorghe Funar, who warns that the autonomy of the Independent Szeckler’s Republic will be proclaimed on March 15, following a pattern similar to the one applied in Kosovo. “Based on the information I have, on March 15, Hungary together with UDMR and the other terrorist organisations, National Szeckler’s Council, National Council of Hungarians from Transylvania, Hungarian Civic Party, want to declare the autonomy of the Independent Szeckler’s Republic. They will have a president, Parliament, Government, army and police forces, their own flag, and Hungarian language becomes the official language,” Funar declared, quoted by Mediafax.
Funar says the scenario which took place in Kosovo has been applied almost identically in Romania, in Harghita, Covasna and Mures counties: “ethnic purification took place after 1989 (…) School separation, based on ethnic criteria, took place at us, like in Kosovo.” In addition, he affirms that weapons were brought in the three counties of the Szecklers and “a signal is awaited, like in Kosovo, for starting armed conflicts.” In this context, Funar announced that PRM Parliamentarian groups will ask for an invitation to be conveyed, at the Parliament, over the next days, to President Traian Basescu for conveying a message related to March 15. In reply, the UDMR leader, Marko Belo, affirms that the statements made by Funar are absurd, and his rhetoric is dangerous. “An intended confusion takes place, in my opinion, between independent as an aim, and autonomy, whereas autonomy is asked where independence is out of question and takes place, in our case, through political battle,” the UDMR leader said.
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Funar says the scenario which took place in Kosovo has been applied almost identically in Romania, in Harghita, Covasna and Mures counties: “ethnic purification took place after 1989 (…) School separation, based on ethnic criteria, took place at us, like in Kosovo.” In addition, he affirms that weapons were brought in the three counties of the Szecklers and “a signal is awaited, like in Kosovo, for starting armed conflicts.” In this context, Funar announced that PRM Parliamentarian groups will ask for an invitation to be conveyed, at the Parliament, over the next days, to President Traian Basescu for conveying a message related to March 15. In reply, the UDMR leader, Marko Belo, affirms that the statements made by Funar are absurd, and his rhetoric is dangerous. “An intended confusion takes place, in my opinion, between independent as an aim, and autonomy, whereas autonomy is asked where independence is out of question and takes place, in our case, through political battle,” the UDMR leader said.
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