Hungarian Foreign Minister Visits Romania, Trying To Normalise Bilateral Relations

Hungarian Foreign Economic Relations and Foreign Minister, Péter Szijjártó, visits Romania during this week, trying to normalise the bilateral relations between the two countries.

His visits comes after the recent controversial statements of the Romanian president, Klaus Iohannis, who accused the main Romanian Opposition party, PSD – Social Democratic Party, of negotiating with Hungary to ‘sell Transylvania’.

Péter Szijjártó met minister Bogdan Aurescu, his Romanian counterpart, and the two officials held a joint press conference. The two diplomats agreed the relationships between their countries have to normalise and also they agreed Hungary needs to sign a treaty in order to invest in Transylvanian region from now on.

This official visit also comes a week before the 100th anniversary of the Treaty of Trianon. Following that event, Hungary lost parts of the Austro-Hungarian empire which formerly belonged to neigboring countries, including Transylvania.

Transylvania is one of the Romanian historical provinces and also part of Dacia, the ancient powerful kingdom which stretched even beyond the actual Romanian borders. Its territory is subject of historical debates between Romania and Hungary.