OREANDA-NEWS. The national flag was raised amidst a military parade, in the presence of President of the Republic János Áder, outside the Parliament Building in Kossuth tér on the Day of National Unity commemorating the signing of the Treaty of Trianon on Saturday morning.

The flag was raised to the tune of the National Anthem by the Ceremonial Guards of the Hungarian Defence Forces on Kossuth Lajos tér. The Central Military Orchestra and the National Ceremonial Cavalry Unit were also present at the event.

The ceremony was attended by the representatives of a number of government and state agencies and civil-society organisations.

The central events organised by the National Event Organisation Office of the Ministry of Defence continued in the morning in the capital in the House of Hungarian Communities where Deputy State Secretary for National Policy Péter Szilágyi delivered a speech.

For the first time this year a whole-week-long series of programmes is being held in conjunction with the Day of National Unity. Conferences and roundtable discussions were held and films were shown in remembrance of the Trianon events at the House of Hungarian Communities throughout the week.

The Parliamentary Committee on National Unity had a meeting in Muravidék.

The Hungarian National Assembly ratified the Treaty of Trianon on 15 November1920 and promulgated the same by virtue of Act XXXIII of 26 July 1921. The Treaty of Trianon pronounced that the Austro-Hungarian Empire has been dissolved, and in consequence, the territory of Hungary (without Croatia) shrank from 283,000 square kilometres to 93,000, and its population decreased from 18.2 million to 7.6 million. Some 3.2 million people, one third of the Hungarian nation found themselves beyond the new borders.

Parliament declared 4 June, the day of the signing of the Treaty of Trianon, the Day of National Unity on 31 May 2010.