Foreign Affairs Minister Bogdan Aurescu said that the Hungarian side continues to use an unacceptable language in terms of diplomacy towards Romania and believes that it is an attempt of Hungary to draw the Romanian side into “an artificial conflict.”
“There is a kind of approach that we find unacceptable in the relations between two EU member states and at the same time two strategic partners, especially since we are two neighbours with common interests in the region and we should act together, particularly in the context of this European crisis concerning migration. The Hungarian side’s approach, which initiated this dialogue through this public announcement made yesterday in regards to the intention of building a fence at the Romanian-Hungarian border is a kind of approach that doesn’t solve this problem. We reacted immediately yesterday and we showed including at the moment this intention of the Hungarian side was broadcast, we informed the Hungarian side that this approach is an approach that does not correspond to the European spirit and which, for certain, does not correspond to the Strategic Partnership between our countries, either,” Aurescu said at the Palace of Parliament. More…