From: bm@bike2work.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill Michel)
Newsgroups: alt.activism
Subject: Danube Defence Action Group
Date: 2 Oct 92 18:30:59 GMT
Reply-To: bm@bike2work.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill Michel)
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** Topic: Urgent request for help - Hungary **
** Written  5:11 pm  Oct  2, 1992 by gn:support in cdp:en.general **

Last night I got a call from the Danube Defence Action Group in
Budapest - they can't get on-line because of phone line problems
there, but very much want to join APC. They wanted this meesage
broadcast urgently, so I asked them to try and fax me the info and
I'd put it on-line.

If there is anywhere else anyone thinks this should be
cross-posted, please feel free. I think this is the only outlet
they have at the moment.

Cheers,

Manda Brookman

GreenNet support

PS This is a direct transcription of the fax as received here in
London.

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TO: GREENNET

FROM: DANUBE DEFENCE ACTION GROUP


Dear Friends,

Hereby we are asking for your help in the grave situation that
developed as a result of the forthcoming opening of the "C
Variant" of the Bos-Nagymaros dam. As you may well know, the
Hungarian Government, realizing the ecological dangers of the
planned power plant, denounced the treaty made in 1977 by Hungary
and Czechoslovakia.

The government of the Czech and Slovak Republic however further on
the realisation of the power plant and following the withdrawing
of the Hungarian party started working on the realisation of the
so called C variant. This means that below Bratislava the Danube
is diverted in Czechoslovak territory and in the meantime the
water output of the Danube that at present serves as the border of
Czeckoslovakia and Hungary will be drastically diminished. This
step on the one hand creates exceedingly serious damages to
Hungary and on the other hand means the unilateral alteration of
the border of two countries. This may become the source of a new
international conflict in the already tense atmosphere of the
territory of Central Europe.

Would you please be so kind as to do your best in order to help us
in the prevention of the realisation of the dam that is against
the international law and ecological interests of the people
living in the area!

It would be a great help if you could distribute this
information.

Danube Defence Action Group

SUMMONS

The diversion of the Danube would create a precedent of violently
solving disputed issues in a region beset by grave conflicts. The
current leaders of Slovakia need help to abandon - withour losing
their prestige - their route where unilateral steps carried them.
Hungarian government needs help to represent its rightful
standpoint efficiently and steadily.

Therefore we ask for the help of the national and international
public. Of those individuals in Hungary, in Slovak Republic and in
other countries who worry about peace in Europe and feel a
responsibility towards saving earthly conditions which are
endangered.

We invite you October 16th at 4pm in Budapest to our general
assembly on Vigado square, from where we will send a petition of
protest to Slovakian government.  Please support our further
demonstrations as well.

October 17th, Saturday at 11 am in Nagymaros: members of Hungarian
environmental organisations will meet to start restoration of the
site at the temporary dike.

October 18th, Sunday at 3pm in Esztergom: We will demonstrate for
Slovakian-Hungarian reconciliation on the ramp of former Danube
bridge.

October 19th, Monday at 5pm in Gyor: There will be a torch light
"illuminating" procession for the interest of Szigetkoz in front
of the Water Management Headquarters.

October 22nd, Thursday: We invite members of international
environmental organisations and representatives of the World
Association of Hungarians to a press conference.

October 24th, Saturday morning: a protesting procession will start
form Gyor and Mosonmagyarovar to Szigetkoz. We will meet citizens
of Szigetkoz in Asvanyraro on Arvai meadow. We expect our friends
from other countries to have a demonstration on 25th, Sunday at
the bank of the Old Danube against ecological aggression.

We call all the environmentalists of the Globe to support our
Budapest demonstration and ask their governments to intercede on
behalf of the prevention of the Bos-Nagymaros dam which threatens
natural treasures of the Danube with extinction. Please join us
October, 24-25 in Szigetkoz by the Danube.

Danube Defence Action Group

Budapest, 28 September 1992

If you have any questions, you can contact organisers at following
contact points:

					   

Duna-Kor (Danube Circle): Budapest, H-1025 Kapy ut 6, Tel:
176-2288

Reflex Egyesulet (Reflex Association): Gyor, H-9024
Bartok ut 7, Tel:96-10988

Press contact: Okoszolgalat
(Ecoservice): Budapest, H-1054 Szechenyi rakpart 7, Tel: 132-3432
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Bill Michel			
bm@eng.sun.com		These views are my own, not Sun's.