According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hungary cannot form a right to represent Hungarians living abroad, and at most have a cultural relationship with Hungarian citizens living in other states.

According to a statement issued on Friday evening, one of the state secretaries of the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hungary’s ambassador to Bucharest, objected to Katalin Novák, who was on a private visit to Transylvania on Facebook that day, meeting with Kelemen Hunor.

“As the President of the Republic, I consider the representation of the entire Hungarian population to be my priority, so there is no difference in terms of whether someone lives here or beyond on the border. The Hungarian is the Hungarian one,” Katalin Novák wrote on her community page.

Referring to international law, the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs assessed that no state could form any right in relation to citizens of other states.

“The primary responsibility for respecting the ethnic, cultural, religious and linguistic rights of Romanian citizens of Hungarian ethnicity lies with Romania. The 2001 OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Sovereignty, Responsibility and National Minorities, also points to a report on preferential treatment for mother states,

According to the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the declaration of the President of the Republic of Hungary does not meet European standards and is not in line with the Hungarian-Romanian Basic Agreement signed in Timisoara in 1996 or the Hungarian-Romanian Strategic Partnership Declaration signed twenty years ago.

Romania continues to insist on maintaining pragmatic relations with Hungary, for the benefit of Romanian and Hungarian citizens, regardless of ethnicity, points out the Romanian foreign affairs statement.