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| 2010 Február 09 (Kedd) |
Abigél, Alex névnapja |
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The cabinet on 22 May approved a program for the restoration of historic monuments in Romania, Mediafax reported. Prime Minister Adrian Nastase said after the meeting that the only monument proposed for the program that was rejected is the Liberty Statue in Arad. Nastase said the "symbolic representation" of the statue is not conducive to reconciliation between Romanians and the country's ethnic Hungarian minority. The statue represents 13 Hungarian generals executed by the Habsburgs in 1849 for having participated in the 1848-49 Hungarian Revolution. It was erected in Arad in 1880, when Transylvania was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. After the province came under Romanian rule, Ionel Bratianu's government in 1924 ordered the statue's removal on the grounds that the 13 generals participated in massacres against the Romanian population. It has since been stored in a monastery in Arad. In September 1999, the Romanian cabinet led by Radu Vasile decided to move the statue to a new "Romanian-Hungarian reconciliation park" in Arad, but the plan was later shelved due to opposition from the town's local council. After the UDMR local branch launched an initiative for the restoration of the Liberty Statue, the current Hungarian government announced it is ready to contribute to the statue's restoration. MS
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