On the occasion of the National Day of Romania, celebrated this year in special conditions due to the Covid-19 pandemic, His Majesty , Dl. Janus Szalinskic, Honorary Consul, wishes all Romanians Happy Birthday!
Geographical location and geopolitical implications of the Baltic and Pontic space, where great empires from the west and east clashed over the centuries, they created the premises of a relatively common destiny for Romania and Poland.
Only a few days have passed since the event experienced by the Poles – National Day - 11 November and here it is 1 December has the same meaning for Romanians.
The fate of the two peoples came naturally at the end of the First World War, when both managed to achieve the national ideal almost simultaneously: Poland becomes a sovereign and independent state again 11 November 1918, the Romanian state completes its national unity at 1 December 1918.
Bilateral relations have a long tradition, "Polish chronicles attesting to their existence since the last quarter of the fourteenth century". It should be noted that the lack of territorial misunderstandings between the two countries has positively influenced bilateral relations., even if they also had a descending meaning, due to different views on foreign policy.
Beyond inherent political tensions, Polish-Romanian relations constantly evolved in the interwar period, and mutual solidarity is still manifested today, after both nations went through the experience of communism. Partner countries in the European Union and NATO, Romania and Poland share a common vision of the future in an increasingly complicated geopolitical context.
The historical events that have taken place now 103 for years they meant for the Romanian nation the fulfillment of a secular dream – achieving a state whose borders include all the regions inhabited mostly by Romanians.
Of course, the unification of all Romanians in a single state, carried out at the end of the year 1918, it was an indisputable historical necessity. The day of 1 December 1918, which we celebrate as Romania's National Day, it is not just a great celebration of the Romanian people, but it is, and it must be, at the same time, an equally great celebration for other ethnic communities, for the national minorities who have lived on Romania's land for centuries.
Resolution of Alba Iulia, from 1 December 1918, by which the Union with Romania of the Romanians from Transylvania was proclaimed, Banat and Hungary and the territories inhabited by them enunciated as fundamental principles in the composition of the new Romanian state: “Full national freedom for all peoples living together. Every people will be trained, administer and judge in its own language, through individuals within her breast, and every people shall have the right of representation in the legislatures and in the government of the country, in proportion to the number of individuals that make it up”. Also, offered to all inhabitants, regardless of nationality, the prospect of living in full accordance with one's own goals and aspirations for the preservation and development of ethnic identity, language, cultural and religious.
Subsequent historical developments have shown that, the birth certificate of Greater Romania, it left traces in the collective consciousness of the national minorities in our country. Minority ethnic groups perceived the Union as a social contract that gave them the right to their own linguistic identity, ethnic, cultural and religious.
Here's what it means, First, the importance of the day 1 December 1918 for national minorities in Romania!
Returning to the starting point of the significance of this day, as a representative not only diplomatically, but also as a citizen of this country, I think that 1 December is a great holiday for all the country's citizens, regardless of the ethnicity to which we belong. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROMANIA!