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Slovak Government Rejects Attempts by Hungary to Sully Trianon Treaty
Wednesday 09 June 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, June 9 (TASR) - The Slovak Government said on Wednesday that it resolutely rejects revisionist attempts by the Hungarian Cabinet and Parliament to cast doubt on the history of the 20th century.
According to a government statement approved on Wednesday to mark the 90th anniversary of the Peace Treaty of Trianon, attempts to attach question marks to historical events are blocking friendly relations and peaceful co-existence between nations and countries. They also represent a sign of disrespect for international peace treaties and the modern European politics of the 21st century.
The Government protests in the strictest terms against one-sided and carefully aimed interpretations of political history following the First World War. "The signing of the Peace Treaty of Trianon meant not only the emergence of new countries belonging to nations until then oppressed in the Kingdom of Hungary, but also the emergence of the Hungarian Republic and other states, many of which later joined the European Union," reads the statement.
The statement stresses the unchallengeable historical fact that the Trianon Treaty of June 4, 1920 represents an indivisible whole - along with other peace treaties signed in France after the First World War (in Versailles on June 28 and in Saint-Germain on September 10, 1919), which laid down and guaranteed the borders of older and newly-created countries in Central Europe. The statement also emphasises that when the borders were set, the rights of all citizens were respected.
In late May, the Hungarian Parliament adopted a law by which it condemned the Trianon Treaty, calling it "the greatest tragedy of Hungarianness" and appealing for still-apparent conflicts emerging from the stipulations of the Treaty, even in the present day, to be rediscussed.
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