BRATISLAVA, June 8, (WEBNOVINY — In his interview this week when he spoke about Slovakia, Speaker of Hungarian Parliament Laszlo Kover lied and belittled the Slovak people, stated Speaker of Parliament Richard Sulik. “If Mr. Kover wants to revise the results of First and Second World Wars, he can turn to the victorious powers,” Sulik stated.
The Speaker of Slovak Parliament considers outrageous Kover’s statement that Hungary’s military could have intervened because during the construction of the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros Danube project, Slovakia has brutally changed the borders. “This statement is outrageous; threatening with a military intervention or mentioning a military interference in neighborly relations between two countries definitely does not belong to vocabulary of good neighbors,” Sulik stated. He also stressed that borders were neither changed or violated in construction of the dam.
Controversial statements of Speaker of Hungarian Parliament Laszlo Kover from the ruling party Fidesz were published in an interview for Monday’s issue of the Czech daily Hospodarske Noviny. Kover stated that Slovak politicians cannot give up territories that they got thanks to the Treaty of Trianon, and on which Slovakia was established. He went on to say that the Hungarian nation cannot give up any of its part, while Hungarians in Slovakia belong to the Hungarian nation in both cultural and spiritual sense.
Sulik reminds Kover that Slovakia and Hungary turned to the International Court in the Hague over Gabcikovo, while Slovakia won the lawsuit. With regard to the Treaty of Trianon, Sulik said that Slovakia was not established based on it, but the treaty only described the borders of the then Czechoslovakia and Hungary as defined by the Allies Supreme Council in its declaration from June 12, 1919.
Richard Sulik thinks that Kover’s statements are to divert attention from Hungary’s international isolation and complicated economic situation. He added that every time when the situation in a country is difficult, when the standard of living decreases, the nationalistic card is pulled out.
The speaker of parliament does not plan to turn to Kover personally. According to him, the Foreign Affairs Ministry should take necessary steps. He does not think that Cabinet should take action in the matter.
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