“Romania Foreign Minister Teodor Melescanu has thanked the Hungarian Government for providing its support for Romania’s bid to become a member of the OECD”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian news agency MTI on Monday following a telephone conversation with his Romania counterpart.

The Minister, who is currently in Hanoi as a member of a Hungarian delegation on an official visit to Vietnam under the leadership of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, added: Teodor Melescanu repeated his assurance that the Romanian Government will be doing everything possible to assure a satisfactory solution to the case of the Hungarian Roman Catholic School in Târgu Mureș at the earliest opportunity.

On Saturday, Mr. Szijjártó told MTI that Hungary is supporting Romania’s bid for membership of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) following a promise from Liviu Dragnea, President of the Romanian government’s leading Social Democratic Party (PSD), to solve the situation regarding the school in Marosvásárhely (Târgu Mureș). The party’s leader spoke to Hungary’s Prime Minister and President of Fidesz Viktor Orbán by telephone and promised to find a solution to the situation, he explained, adding that President of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania Hunor Kelemen had also been consulted with relation to the decision.

In early September, the Mureș County school supervisory authority suspended the operations of the Hungarian language catholic school, in response to which the Hungarian Government announced that it will be vetoing Romania’s bid for membership of the OECD in view of the termination of the school’s legal status.

(Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade/MTI)