marți, 18 noiembrie 2008

Hungarian-Romanian bilateral relations

Hungarian-Romanian bilateral relations have gained a powerful dynamics during the last years, becoming an example of cooperation in the Central-European region. Political, economic and security relations are covered by more than 150 agreements, treaties and conventions.

The joint meetings of the Government of Romania and the Government of the Republic of Hungary have become the driving force of the relationship between the two countries. It has been agreed that the topics tackled by the two executives be the more pragmatic, covering concrete fields of interests for the citizens of the two countries, such as the improvement of road, rail and fluvial infrastructure between Romania and Hungary, the development of border regions, the absorption of Community funds for the accession of Romania to the Schengen environment or the whole problem of energetic security and the Nabucco project.

The two heads of diplomacy on their regular meetings analyze the evolution of strategic partnership relations between the two countries. The two parties have reasserted their wish to consolidate Hungarian-Romanian cooperation on the political, economic levels and for the protection of rights of persons belonging to the national minorities within the two countries. „The discussions that I had and will continue to have showed once again the excellent relations that Romania has with Hungary, both in what we could name classical bilateral relations and cooperation within the EU" – declared foreign minister Lazar Comanescu. „Not least we talked about the role of the Hungarian minority in Romania and that of Romanian one in Hungary, real bridges for the further development of relationships with Hungary, the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania being a stabilizing element in our connections” – declared foreign minister Lazar Comanescu.

An important event in the bilateral relations was the October 23. 2008. meeting of presidents László Sólyom and Traian Basescu in Miercurea Ciuc to celebrate the anniversary of the 56 Hungarian revolution.

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