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Article: Budapest and Bucharest bury differences over Transylvania
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 16, 1996
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Budapest - Timisoara, the town that provided the spark for the
1989 Romanian revolution, will today play host to another piece of
history: the signing of a long-awaited bilateral treaty between
Hungary and Romania.
Billed as a treaty of "reconciliation and friendship", the
document aims to end decades of mutual animosity while at the same
time boosting both countries' chances of joining Nato and the
European Union.
Under the terms of the treaty, Budapest is to renounce any claim
to Transylvania, the territory it ruled as part of the
Austro-Hungarian empire up to the end of the First World War.
Romania has agreed to guarantee a range of rights to its large
ethnic Hungarian minority.
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