On Friday, Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Grlič Radman described as inappropriate the actions of the Hungarian ambassador to NATO, who gave his counterparts a national atlas of Hungary as a Christmas present. Only the regions of Lika and Gorski Kotar are shown as Croatia, Hina agency wrote.
The atlas, which the Permanent Representative of Hungary to NATO István Balogh presented to his colleagues in the Alliance before Christmas, was printed in Budapest in 2021.
According to Grlič Radman, the Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is now examining the contents of the atlas. However, the minister already considers it “quite inappropriate” to hand out such a controversial atlas to NATO ambassadors. As he pointed out, the atlas does not explicitly mention “Greater Hungary” (that is, Hungary – TASR note), but it still contains questionable maps and texts.
At the same time, the head of Croatian diplomacy announced that he wants to talk about it with his colleagues from Romania, Slovenia and Slovakia.
“Today is full of geopolitical challenges and security threats, and calls for more dialogue and cooperation between European and transatlantic allies,” he added.
In 2022, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán also caused an international uproar when he posed in a video on a social network with a scarf with a map of Hungary. At the time, the Romanian Department of Diplomacy and the Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs called Orbán’s speech unacceptable. Other countries, including Croatia and Ukraine, expressed themselves similarly.
Source: spravy.pravda.sk
