Minoritățile naționale și riscurile de securitate
National minorities and security risks

Summary/Abstract: Promotion of human rights and the fundamental freedoms, including the protection of national minorities, is based upon the existence of a democratic legal order that provides equality and mutual respect among all members of society. The State should be seen as legitimate by all members of society, which involves equality of opportunities and participation in the political life for all as well as observation of the specific rights of persons belonging to minorities and their identity. The solutions for the protection of identity can only be sought in the framework of a democratic political regime, one that treats differences fairly, provides the diminution of economic and social inequalities whose magnitude may lead to identity withdrawal and intolerance; such a political regime should be based on the belief that universal values, acting like an agreement among the groups that are culturally different, can only come out of creative work performed on the basis of cultural differences. Human rights and, in their context, the rights of persons belonging to minorities, are conceptually closely related to the idea of democracy. Democracy assumes acceptance of the fact that each citizen of a State is entitled to equal political rights which he may fully exercise, irrespective of his national origin; it assumes the creation and the functioning of the institutions capable to provide such things and it also assumes the fact that minorities may not become, either politically or from other points of view, enclaves exempted from the State's sovereignty. The protection of the rights and identity of persons belonging to minorities should be, after all, an element of democracy, civilization and order, not anarchy and destruction of the values and institutions of others or the common ones.

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