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RFE/RL NEWSLINE 12 January 2000
SLOVAKIA WILL NOT REVISE POSITION ON BENES DECREES. The
government will not revise its decision not to discuss the
Benes decrees, despite the forthcoming negotiations with the
EU. Foreign Ministry spokesman Boris Gandel told CTK on 11
January that both Foreign Minister Eduard Kukan and his
deputy, Jan Figel, admit that the question of the decrees is
often mentioned by Bratislava's negotiating partners from the
EU but that this is a "sensitive question" that must first be
tackled by historians before it can be taken up by
politicians. The participation of the Hungarian Coalition
Party in Mikulas Dzurinda's cabinet has been accepted by some
coalition members only on condition that the 1945 decrees,
which led to the expulsion of Germans and Hungarians, are not
revised during the coalition's term in office, which will not
end until 2002. MS
HUNGARIAN JOURNALIST ABSOLVED AGAIN IN SURVEILLANCE CASE. The
Budapest Prosecutor's Office has terminated an investigation
into Laszlo Juszt, former editor in chief of the weekly
"Kriminalis" and a television program of the same name,
Hungarian media reported on 12 January. Juszt was accused of
violating state secrets last May when he published original
documents related to the alleged illegal surveillance of
Federation of Young Democrats--Hungarian Civic Party (FIDESZ)
politicians under the previous government. The investigation
was halted by the Prosecutor-General's Office in July 1999,
but a few weeks later it resumed when police appealed that
decision. MSZ
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RFE/RL NEWSLINE 13 January 2000
HUNGARIAN POLICE SUSPECTS FRAUD BEHIND LAND SALES. An inquiry
into the sale of land by state agricultural cooperatives to
national parks is likely to raise the suspicion of fraud,
police spokesman Laszlo Garamvolgyi told Hungarian media on
12 January. The police investigation began after Agriculture
Minister Jozsef Torgyan said earlier this month that the
cooperatives had sold properties that were in private hands,
thus swindling some 57,000 landowners. Experts believe that
some 94,000 hectares may have been affected by the illegal
purchases. MSZ
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