RFE/RL Daily Report
No. 183, 26 September 1994
GERMAN OFFICIAL: RUSSIAN ARMS WENT TO SERBIA. The German weekly
Bild am Sonntag cited a senior German intelligence official as
saying that Russian arms withdrawn from Eastern Europe had gone to
Serbia instead of back to Russia. Bernd Schmidbauer, Chancellor
Helmut Kohl's intelligence coordinator, was reported as saying
that Russian weapons might have been diverted to Syria as well.
Reuters reported on 24 September that the German weekly claimed to
have information that former Soviet arms such as 100-mm antitank
guns and 120-mm mortars had been transferred to Serbia from East
Germany, Hungary, and the Czech Republic since 1991. The UN
Security Council embargoed arms shipments to the former Yugoslavia
on 25 September that year. -- Doug Clarke, RFE/RL Inc.
REACTIONS TO REJECTION OF BROWN AMENDMENT. Polish domestic media
on 26 September reported disappointment over the US Congress
decision to reject an amendment introduced by Senator Hank Brown
that would have enabled Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary to
receive excess US arms supplies on preferential terms. Gazeta
Wyborcza said the decision meant the closure of the "fast track to
NATO" for which the three countries had hoped. Prime Minister
Waldemar Pawlak said, however, that the US decision was dictated
by "very practical considerations" and did not suggest lack of
confidence in Poland. -- Anna Sabbat-Swidlicka, RFE/RL Inc.
MEETING OF HUNGARIAN SOCIALIST PARTY PRESIDIUM. The Presidium of
the ruling Hungarian Socialist Party met behind closed doors on 24
September to prepare for the party's congress on 7-9 October, MTI
reports. Presidium leader Ivan Vitanyi said after the meeting that
the HSP's position radically changed when it became the ruling
party, causing problems for both the HSP leadership and its
members. Referring to obvious differences among the government
coalition partners, Vitanyi said "Hungary does not have a social
liberal government but a social and liberal cabinet." He also
noted that there were differences of opinion within the HSP over
the party's economic program, drawn up by Finance Minister Laszlo
Bekesi. Vitanyi said the party had accepted the draft of the
program, but it still needed to be worked on. -- Judith Pataki,
RFE/RL Inc.
[As of 1200 CET]
(Compiled by Eileen Downing and Jan Cleave)
Copyright 1994, RFE/RL, Inc. All rights reserved.
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