BRATISLAVA, June 7, (WEBNOVINY) — It does not take an experienced diplomat to read the signs from the top representatives of Hungary. “We got a slap in the face from Hungary as hot as chili. It’s time to react,” stated shadow foreign affairs minister for the opposition SMER-SD party at Tuesday’s news conference. SMER-SD is criticizing the government of Iveta Radicova and head of Slovak diplomacy Mikulas Dzurinda for their failure to react to statements by Speaker of Hungarian Parliament Laszlo Kover in an interview with the Czech business daily HOSPODARSKE NOVINY. Kover told the daily that the Hungarian nation cannot give up any of its parts and its (ethnic) Hungarians in Slovakia belong to the Hungarian nation in both the cultural and spiritual sense. “Slovakia has quickly received an answer to its submissive and servile foreign policy,” stated SMER-SD deputy leader Marek
According to leader of the opposition SNS party Jan Slota, the statements of Speaker of Hungarian Parliament Laszlo Kover are outrageous, insulting the Slovak people and claiming Slovak land. “These are thoughts expressed by a representative of the Fidesz party with a clear intention,” Slota commented. The SNS agrees with SMER-SD that the Slovak government has insufficiently responded to dangerous statements from Budapest. Slota stated that the Slovak ambassador to Hungary should be immediately withdrawn and the Treaty on Friendship and Cooperation between the Slovak Republic and Hungary canceled, as the Hungarian side has continually breached it in crude and arrogant fashion.
In an interview for the Slovak daily HOSPODARSKE NOVINY Laszlo Kover stated that Fidesz started addressing the topic of the Treaty of Trianon after winning the elections last year, as Hungarians need a spiritual and moral revival. Ethnic Hungarians living outside Hungary should get the right to vote in order to be connected with Hungary, he claims. The Fidesz representative believes that every single Slovak politician has a Jan Slota inside, even if to a small extent. Kover thinks that the Slovak opposition parties SNS and SMER are more radical than the Hungarian radical right party Jobbik. “Our Slovak colleagues should be more confident. We understand that they do not want to give up territories that they got thanks to the Treaty of Trianon, and on which Slovakia was established. But the Hungarian nation cannot give up any part. Hungarians in Slovakia belong to us in cultural terms,” the Hungarian speaker of parliament stated.
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