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The foreign minister of Hungary, Janos Martonyi, declared on Monday [4 March 2013], following the meeting with his counterpart Titus Corlatean, that no major political force in Hungary considers Romania and enemy, that he came to Bucharest as a friend and there should be more mutual trust in the question of ethnic minorities. “I came here as a friend. In Hungary there are no major political forces to consider Romania an enemy,” Martonyi said, showing that there are “talks not quarrels” with Romania about the question of ethnic minorities.

He showed that “by means of honest dialogues” the desired results could be reached about minorities. “We obtained results in past years, but they are not complete. There are different points of view, tension, and difficult moments. In those difficult moments we should be cautious. That is why I have come here. We must be confident,” Martonyi said, showing that Budapest had supported and would support the interests of the Hungarian minorities in Romania and had nothing against Bucharest doing the same with the Romanian minority in Hungary.

The Hungarian minister also pointed out the fact that Romania was the second export market for Hungary after Germany and Budapest wanted more Romanian investors in the Hungarian market with Romanian products. There should also be a Romanian-Hungarian Chamber of Commerce to stimulate this cooperation. He reminded the important joint power projects of the two countries, infrastructure in transports and interconnection at highway level.

In his turn, minister Corlatean pointed out the importance of commercial exchanges between Romania and Hungary. “Our bilateral trade has reached real records in full economic crisis, 7.3 billion euro in 2011, while the figures we have about the volume of bilateral trade in the first 11 months of 2012 make us hope for a new increase. The crisis period has helped Romanian and Hungarian entrepreneurs discover each others. The over 11,500 Romanian companies with Hungarian capital and over 6,000 companies with Romanian capital in Hungary yield special dynamics to the economic ties between our states,” he said.

Corlatean also pointed out that by developing the strategic partnership in fields like defense, infrastructure, assistance in emergency cases, young people, tourism and culture, “the Romanians and Hungarians will represent a role model for the other countries in the region, as the French-German partnership has been an inspiration for us.”

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