The World - News from June 29, 1988
The Romanian government ordered the immediate closure of a Hungarian consulate and expelled the consular staff, the Hungarian state news agency MTI reported. The decision to close the Hungarian Consulate General in Cluj-Napoca was apparently prompted by Monday’s demonstration by about 50,000 Hungarians in Budapest who protested plans for the demolition of thousands of Romanian villages, including ethnic Hungarian communities, by the year 2000. Cluj-Napoca is a city in Transylvania in northwestern Romania where most of the 1.7 million ethnic Hungarians live. To Hungarians, the city is known as Kolozsvar.
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