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RFE/RL NEWSLINE 14 May 1999

VISEGRAD FOUR MEETING IN BRATISLAVA. The prime ministers
of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary
gathered in Bratislava on 14 May in an attempt to
revitalize the regional Visegrad Four group, an RFE/RL
correspondent reported. The Visegrad group was
established eight years ago to facilitate regional
cooperation, but Slovakia's participation deteriorated
under former Prime Minister Vladimir Meciar. Current
Slovak Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda hailed the summit
meeting as a renewal of good political and regional
cooperation between his country and the rest of the
region. The one-day summit will focus on EU and NATO
integration in the region, joint economic policies,
cross-border transport and telecommunication projects,
efforts to reduce organized crime and illegal migration
as well as the Kosova conflict. VG

HUNGARIAN EXTREMIST PARTY NOT WANTED AT UDMR CONGRESS.
Csaba Takacs, the executive chairman of the Hungarian
Democratic Federation of Romania (UDMR), has asked the
far-right Hungarian Justice and Life Party (MIEP) to
disregard an earlier invitation to the UDMR's
forthcoming congress, Hungarian media reported on 13
May. Takacs told MIEP chairman Istvan Csurka that the
presence of an MIEP delegation at the congress would be
damaging owing to Csurka's recent remarks on the status
of the Yugoslav province of Vojvodina. Csurka had said
that the only way to secure the ethnic Hungarian
minority's existence in Vojvodina would be to give the
province to Hungary. "Such a border readjustment is so
trifling that it would not cause even as much damage to
Yugoslavia as one night of NATO bombing," Csurka
concluded. MSZ

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