From: FEKETE@bcvms.bc.edu (Zoli Fekete)
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Subject: AGORA-SCMPOST RFE/RL report (excerpts)
Date: 8 Sep 1992 09:20:01 -0500
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HUNGARY BREACHING UN YUGOSLAV EMBARGO?  Romania says 12 gasoline
tank trucks driven by Yugoslav citizens trying to transport fuel
from Gyor, Hungary, reached the checkpoint at the
Romanian-Hungarian frontier at Nadlac on 1 September.  Rompres
said in a dispatch on 7 September that according to the travel
documents the transport destination was "Yugoslavia." The Romanian
customs did not allow the tanks to transit Romania, considering
the transport a clear case of breaching the embargo imposed on
former Yugoslavia.  Two days later another shipment was stopped,
this time indicating "Skopje, Macedonia," as the destination.
(Michael Shafir, RFE/RL Inc.)
 
ETHNIC HUNGARIAN PARTIES CRITICZZE MECIAR. In a statement
published by CSTK on 7 September, the Hungarian Christian
Democratic Movement and Coexistence, two groups representing
Slovakia's ethnic Hungarians in the Slovak parliament, accused the
Movement for a Democratic Slovakia and its leader, Slovak Premier
Vladimir Meciar, of ignoring the interests and demands of ethnic
Hungarians and of refusing to recognize the legitimacy of
Hungarian deputies in the Slovak parliament. The statement says
the coalition of the two Hungarian parties represents more than
75% of all voters of Hungarian nationality in Slovakia.  The
statement accuses Meciar of being hostile toward ethnic Hungarians
and, in particular, toward leading politicians and deputies
representing ethnic Hungarians.  The two parties also reject
statements in the Slovak media alleging that deputies representing
ethnic Hungarians are causing political tension in Slovakia. (Jiri
Pehe, RFE/RL Inc.)
 
MECIAR ON RELATIONS WITH HUNGARY. Speaking to Hungarian
journalists in Bratislava about his 9 September visit to Hungary,
Meciar said he is looking forward to his trip "not with optimism
but realism," Radio Budapest reported on 7 September.  For
Slovakia, he said, the Gabcikovo project is a technical, not a
political problem, and it is up to Hungary, which unilaterally
renounced the relevant 1977 state treaty with Czechoslovakia, to
make the next move.  Meciar called "unrealistic" Hungary's desire
to solve minority issues with its neighbors through bilateral
treaties on the basis of collective minority rights. Bilateral
treaties were not possible, he said, because "nationality issues
are the internal affair of a given state," while collective rights
are not granted anywhere in the world and autonomy could lead to
separatism. Meciar also noted the existence--alongside Budapest's
"rational and subdued policies" towards its neighbors--of
"nationalist currents" in official Hungarian policy "aimed at the
restoration of a Greater Hungary." (Alfred Reisch, RFE/RL Inc.)
 
HUNGARIAN-BELGIAN JOINT STATEMENT.  Hungarian Foreign Minister
Geza Jeszenszky and his Belgian counterpart, Willy Claes, signed a
joint statement on bilateral cooperation in Budapest on 7
September, MTI reports. Claes expressed Belgian support for
Hungary's cooperation with the EC, NATO, and the West European
Union as well as for a political dialogue between the Benelux
Union and the Visegrad Triangle (Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and
Poland.) (Judith Pataki, RFE/RL Inc.)
 
BISHOP TOKES'S PROTEST FAST. On 7 September Bishop Laszlo Tokes
withdrew his acceptance of an invitation from President Ion
Iliescu for talks on his demands and is continuing his protest
started on 2 September, Radio Bucharest reports. Tokes said he his
decision was prompted by Iliescu's statement in which he called
the fast a "political diversion." The bishop said he was still
considering an appeal by the Democratic Convention to end the
fast, however. Meanwhile, prominent religious leaders in
Timisoara, including Nicolae Corneanu, head of the Orthodox Church
in the Banat, and Rabbi Ernst Neumann, leader of the Timisoara
Jewish community, expressed support for Tokes. (Michael Shafir,
RFE/RL Inc.)
 
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