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1 RFE/RL NEWSLINE 21 July 1999 (mind)  46 sor     (cikkei)
2 RFE/RL NEWSLINE 22 July 1999 (mind)  58 sor     (cikkei)

+ - RFE/RL NEWSLINE 21 July 1999 (mind) VÁLASZ  Feladó: (cikkei)

RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
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RFE/RL NEWSLINE  21 July 1999

SLOVAK PRESIDENT PROMULGATES MINORITY LANGUAGE LAW.
Rudolf Schuster on 20 July signed the law on the use of
minority languages in contacts with the authorities, CTK
and Hungarian media reported. Schuster said he decided
to promulgate the law after two independent teams of
lawyers unanimously recommended he do so. Arpad Duka-
Zolyomi, deputy chairman of the Hungarian Coalition
Party (SMK), told the Budapest daily "Magyar Hirlap"
that the SMK can now do nothing except seek to have the
parliament amend the law. In Hungary, Prime Minister
Viktor Orban said that it is "regrettable" that the bill
was passed without the consent of the minorities it
affects and that the law will "not be capable of
defending the interests of the Hungarian minority." MS

HUNGARY, ROMANIA AGREE ON JOINT PEACEKEEPING UNIT.
Romanian Brigadier General Mihaita Costache and
Hungarian Brigadier General Jozsef Forgo, meeting in
Hodmezovasarhely on 20 July, signed a technical
agreement that defines the duties of the Hungarian-
Romanian joint peacekeeping battalion. The battalion can
be mobilized only in Europe and must operate under the
aegis of the UN, the OSCE, or the West European Union.
The joint peacekeeping unit can be deployed as of 1
January 2000, Hungarian media reported. MSZ

HUNGARY 'NOT SURPRISED' BY EU'S DECISION ON BALKAN
RECONSTRUCTION CENTER. Foreign Ministry State Secretary
Zsolt Nemeth on 20 July said that Hungary "is not
surprised" by the EU foreign ministers' decision earlier
that day to agree "in principle" to choose Thessaloniki,
Greece as the reconstruction center for the Balkans. He
said that "it was to be expected that EU would choose
one of its member states for that purpose." Hungary had
launched a heavy campaign for Budapest to host the
center. Nemeth observed that the center may also be
needed for the reconstruction of Vojvodina. MSZ/MS

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+ - RFE/RL NEWSLINE 22 July 1999 (mind) VÁLASZ  Feladó: (cikkei)

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RFE/RL NEWSLINE 22 July 1999

SLOVAK POLL SHOWS GOVERNMENT SUPPORT DECLINING. A
public opinion poll conducted by Focus shows that
support for Slovakia's four-party coalition
government, which recently announced economic
austerity measures, is declining, Reuters and CTK
reported. The government now has 52.8 percent backing,
compared with 57.6 percent in June. The combined
support of the opposition parties now exceeds 41
percent, compared with 37.9 percent one month earlier.
The opposition Movement for a Democratic Slovakia is
leading the field, with 28.7 percent backing, followed
by the Slovak Democratic Coalition (19.6 percent) and
the Democratic Left Party (14.5 percent). The Slovak
National Party, the other opposition party, is backed
by 12.4 percent, the Hungarian Coalition Party by 11
percent, and the Party of Civic Understanding by 7.7
percent. MS

HUNGARIAN PARTY IN SLOVAKIA TO 'RECONSIDER'
PARTICIPATION IN GOVERNMENT. The Hungarian Coalition
Party (SMK) is to "reconsider" its continued
participation in the government coalition given that
"its political expectations have not been fulfilled,"
according to a statement by the SMK leadership to CTK
on 21 July. The SMK has opposed the government-
sponsored bill on the use of national minority
languages in contacts with the authorities, saying its
provisions are too restrictive. MS

HUNGARY REBUFFED ON VOJVODINA AT BRATISLAVA
CONFERENCE. Slovak Foreign Minister Eduard Kukan, one
of the two UN special envoys on the Balkan crisis,
told a 21 July international conference in Bratislava
devoted to the future of Yugoslavia that it is now
necessary to solve the complicated problems in
Yugoslavia, Kosova, and the Balkans rather than "make
up new ones," such as autonomy for Vojvodina's
Hungarian ethnic minority, CTK reported. Jiri
Dienstbier, UN envoy for human rights in Yugoslavia,
said it is "very dangerous" for the Hungarian
government "to play with fire abroad," and Dusan
Mihajlovic, chairman of the Serbian New Democracy
Party, said the issue of autonomy for the Vojvodina
Hungarians is "a Yugoslav problem that could find a
solution in granting a very high degree of regional
autonomy [to Vojvodina]." Joszef Kasza, head of the
Federation of Vojvodina Hungarians, told the forum
that autonomy is "a promising model for solving
minority problems." MS

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