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Hungary’s ambassador to Bucharest, Oskar Fuzes, told a news conference Thursday Hungary opposes the gold mining project in Rosia Montana in western Romania, but underscored the decision belongs to Romanian authorities.

A flash mob of around 30 youths assembled Monday before the Romanian Environment Ministry in Bucharest, to mark ten years since the cyanide and heavy metals spill in Baia Mare, northern Romania, an incident sometimes called “the second Chernobyl.”

Romania’s Environment Minister Laszlo Borbely said Monday during the commemoration of ten years since a major cyanide spill at a gold mine in Baia Mare, northern Romania, the Rosia Montana gold mining project is on hold because the project's required urbanism certificate is null.

Romanian President Traian Basescu said late Tuesday on OTV the country’s High Council for Defense (CSAT), which he heads, will discuss the gold mining project Rosia Montana when an expertise on it is ready.

The “Past, present and future of Rosia Montana” photography exhibition opened Tuesday at the European Parliament.