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Slota Unveils Memorial to Treaty of Trianon in Komarno
Friday 04 June 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Komarno, June 4 (TASR) - Slovak National Party (SNS) chairman Jan Slota unveiled a memorial to the Trianon Treaty at the Slovak-Hungarian border-crossing in Komarno (Nitra region) on Friday.
The event was attended by hundreds of SNS sympathisers with national flags, with dozens of police officers keeping order.
Slota in his speech stated that Hungarian politicians, including those in the Government, challenge the Trianon Treaty and thus Slovakia's sovereignty with it. "This is our response to the provocations by Hungarian politicians from the Fidesz party, (Premier) Mr. (Viktor) Orban and the Neo-Nazi Jobbik party. Slovakia is now showing the entire nation, the whole of Europe and Hungarians from beyond the Danube River in particular that this is our land, the Slovak land, and we'll never let it to be taken away from us," said Slota.
The memorial plaque thanks the Allied powers for the treaty, which was signed at the Grand Trianon palace in Versailles on June 4, 1920. "The treaty created Czechoslovakia along with other countries and gave shape to the new Europe," states the plaque.
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