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Subject: AGORA-SCMPOST RFE/RL Daily Report 27-28 JAN, 1993 (excerpts)
Date: 28 Jan 1993 21:38:20 -0600
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ROMANIAN-HUNGARIAN TALKS.  A Hungarian Foreign Ministry delegation
arrived in Bucharest on 26 January for talks on the draft of a
bilateral treaty.  Radio Bucharest did not elaborate on the
delegation's agenda, but said that the meeting is part of a
Romanian initiative to spur relations to Hungary.  Disputes
between the two country's have often centered on treatment of
Romania's large Hungarian minority.  On the other hand, Romania
insists that the new treaty should include a clause stipulating
that Hungary had no territorial claims on Romania.  Dan Ionescu,
RFE/RL, Inc.
 
CSURKA NOT ELECTED AS HDF VICE PRESIDENT. Istvan Csurka,
controversial writer and leader of the right-wing faction of the
ruling Hungarian Democratic Forum, failed to be elected by the
party's presidium as one of the six party vice presidents, MTI
reports.  In December 1992 the HDF temporarily suspended the posts
of vice presidents in order to blunt criticism of the party in
connection with the activities of Csurka, then one of the vice
presidents. The selection of the vice presidents and the HDF
executive chairman, second in command after party chairman Jozsef
Antall, took place three days after the HDF's national meeting.
Minister of Defense Lajos Fur, incumbent HDF executive president,
was reconfirmed in that post.  Karoly Okolicsanyi, RFE/RL, Inc.
 
ESTONIAN-HUNGARIAN TALKS IN BUDAPEST.  Prime Ministers Mart Laar
of Estonia and Jozsef Antall of Hungary met in Budapest on 27
January 1993, MTI reports.  They agreed to set up a joint economic
committee to encourage bilateral trade. Laar said Estonia is
interested in studying Hungarian experience in privatization and
Soviet troop withdrawal experiences, he said. There was also
mention of a possible Finnish-Estonian-Hungarian summit meeting.
Antall and Laar also called for measures to protect the Khanty, a
Finno-Ugric people related to both the Hungarians and the
Estonians, who live around Russia's oil-producing Tyumen region.
The visit is the first ever to Hungary by an Estonian head of
state.  Karoly Okolicsanyi and Riina Kionka, RFE/RL, Inc.
 
SPIROIU ON RELATIONS WITH HUNGARIAN ARMY. Romanian National
Defense Minister Nicolae Spiroiu says his ministry and the
Hungarian Defense Ministry both express a desire to cooperate in
ironing out trouble spots between the two countries.  In an
interview with RFE/RL on 27 January, Spiroiu said they hope to set
an example for political relations between the two states.  A
Hungarian Foreign Ministry delegation is currently in Bucharest
conducting talks on a bilateral treaty.  Michael Shafir, RFE/RL,
Inc.
 
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