The serious crisis precipitated in South Ossetia proved again that lasting peace and stability can be achieved only with the consistent application of the democratic principles laid down many times by the United Nations, the Council of Europe and the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the international community is responsible for the vindication of these principles.
Romania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Adrian Cioroianu, voicing Romania’s official standpoint concerning Kosovo’s status, announced that Romania opposes the provision of collective rights for minorities. We would like to remind Romania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, and all its competent public authorities, that the basic human rights are universal and are to be applied to everybody, since they emerge from the inherent dignity of the human being!
Preservation of the defencelessness of Hungarians in Transylvania, prevention of the creation of the autonomy of communities
The draft Act on the Status of Ethnic Minorities, which has been submitted to Parliament by the Romanian Government in agreement with RMDSZ, subordinates the Hungarian ethnic community living in Transylvania to a government-committed organisation, misleads the general public in Romania and in other countries, gives rise to the belief that it protects the identity and guarantees the equality of Hungarians, applying the principles of self-governing!