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Subject: AGORA-SCMPOST RFE/RL Daily Report 06 OCT, 1992 (excerpts)
Date: 6 Oct 1992 15:18:25 -0500
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EC REBUFF FOR "TRIANGLE" COUNTRIES. European Community foreign
ministers met for the first time with their counterparts from the
Visegrad triangle of Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia on 5
October in Luxembourg, Western agencies report. The current EC
president, British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, told the three
countries that no timetable can be set for full membership in the
EC.  Hurd told a news conference that the EC "sympathizes with the
wish of our friends here to become full members," but that economic
uncertainties stood in the way. The triangle countries had
requested in September that the EC agree to open negotiations on
full membership in 1996, with a view to their joining the community
by the end of the century. A formal reply to this request is due at
an EC summit in December.  (Louisa Vinton, RFE/RL, Inc.)
 
CANADIAN GOVERNOR GENERAL IN HUNGARY. Ramon John Hnatyshyn held
talks in Budapest on 5 October with President Arpad Goncz and Prime
Minister Jozsef Antall. The goal of the official visit is to expand
bilateral ties between the two countries.  The talks focused on
economic ties, Canada's participation in the 1996 Budapest World
Fair, and the situation in the former Yugoslavia.  Antall urged
that Western countries adopt a comprehensive strategy aimed at
strengthening East Central Europe's new democracies.  Goncz
expressed concern about a possible spread of the Yugoslav crisis
and said that future peace treaties should guarantee the exercise
of minority rights. (Edith Oltay, RFE/RL, Inc.)
 
SATELLITE TV FOR HUNGARIANS ABROAD. Spokeswoman Judit Juhasz says
the Hungarian government has set up the Hungaria Television
Foundation to finance a satellite station to convey Hungarian
cultural values, provide an objective view of Hungary, cultivate
relations between peoples, and help minorities in other countries
preserve their Hungarian identity. Hungaria TV is to start
transmission three hours a day on 1 November. Programs will deal
with politics, culture, entertainment, and religion, with special
emphasis on education.  The station will be overseen by a 13-member
board of trustees consisting of prominent Hungarian cultural
figures, including the writer Sandor Csoori. State subsidies will
amount to 300 million forint this year and 2 billion next year, but
the station is expected to be self-financing by 1997.  MTI and
Radio Budapest carried the story. (Edith Oltay, RFE/RL, Inc.)
 
MORE POLICEMEN IN HUNGARY. Minister of the Interior Peter Boross
told a press conference that this year 2500 new police posts have
been filled and 500 additional policemen are to be hired next year.
Pointing out that public security is becoming a number one
political issue in Hungary, Boross said that the increase in police
personnel has the population's support.  Boross stressed the
importance of keeping the police force free of any political
influence. As in all East European countries, the number of crimes
in Hungary has sharply increased in the freer atmosphere brought
about by democratization.  (Edith Oltay, RFE/RL, Inc.)
 
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