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OMRI DAILY DIGEST
No. 51, 13 March 1997

HUNGARIAN, ROMANIAN PREMIERS HAIL "NEW CHAPTER" IN BILATERAL
RELATIONS.
Gyula Horn and Victor Ciorbea, meeting in Budapest on 12 March, spoke of
a "new chapter" in bilateral relations, Hungarian media reported. This
is the first visit by a Romanian premier to Hungary since 1989. Horn and
Ciorbea signed five agreements, including one establishing a commission
to monitor the implementation of the basic treaty concluded last year.
Ciorbea announced plans for a new Romanian law to protect minorities'
rights in Romania that would include allowing the mother tongue to be
used in education and official dealings. He noted that the two
countries' strategic partnership as well as the involvement of the
Hungarian minority in the Romanian government could serve as a model for
the region. Ciorbea also expressed optimism about Romania's chances of
joining NATO, saying that "it is up to us to see that these two nations-
-without delays or slowdowns--step together on the road to Europe." --
Zsofia Szilagyi

HUNGARY'S NEWS AGENCY ON VERGE OF FINANCIAL COLLAPSE. MTI could be
insolvent within a month unless it receives financial assistance,
Vilaggazdasag reported on 13 March. The news agency's management blames
stagnating state support, excessive spending, and MTI's inability to
collect outstanding debts to pay the 360 million forints ($2.1 million)
it owes the social insurance fund. -- Zsofia Szilagyi

CLUJ HUNGARIAN UNIVERSITY TO BE RE-OPENED? Romanian premier Victor
Ciorbea's announcement before his departure for Budapest that the Bolyai
Hungarian-language university in Cluj will be reopened has prompted
protests in Romania, not just among extremist parties. Cluj Prefect
Alexandru Farcasan, who is a member of the ruling National Peasant
Party-Christian Democratic, said reopening the university and permitting
bilingual street signs are likely to cause "discontent" among the
Romanian ethnic majority. The reopening of the Bolyay university, which
in 1958 was merged with the Romanian-language Babes University, has long
been demanded by the Hungarian Democratic Federation of Romania, now a
member of the ruling coalition. But ethnic Romanian faculty of the
Babes-Bolyay University, including Rector Andrei Marga, are opposed to
the move. Meanwhile, Radio Bucharest quoted Ciorbea as saying in
Budapest on 12 March that a separate Hungarian-language department would
be opened within the existing university and would train Hungarian-
language teachers. -- Michael Shafir


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