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RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol 2, No. 183, 22 September 1998

THREE NATO APPLICANTS MEET IN BUDAPEST. The defense ministers
of the Czech Republic, Poland, and Hungary met in 21
September in Budapest and agreed to submit their NATO
membership ratification documents in Washington at the same
time, Hungarian media report. Vladimir Vetchy, Janusz
Onyszkiewicz, and Janos Szabo said their countries want to
join NATO ahead of next April's expected entry, pointing to
the "smooth progress of the ratification of NATO protocols."
They added that they want to see Kosova granted autonomy and
called for increasing international pressure on Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic. MSZ

TUDOR SAYS ETHNIC HUNGARIANS TO DECLARE TRANSYLVANIA
AUTONOMOUS. Corneliu Vadim Tudor, leader of the extremist
Greater Romania Party (PRM), told the Senate on 21 September
that a report prepared by "one of [Romania's] secret
services" demonstrates that the Hungarian Democratic
Federation of Romania (UDMR) will soon declare Transylvania's
territorial autonomy. He said similar reports in the past
were ignored by the presidential office and by the
government, according to Mediafax. The media recently carried
reports on a document signed by an ethnic Romanian from Cluj,
who called for Transylvania's autonomy and said he is "fed up
with Romania." He said he was making that call on behalf of
the Pro Transylvania foundation, but it later transpired that
the foundation has not been registered. Opposition parties,
including the PRM, the Party of Social Democracy in Romania,
and the Party of Romanian National Unity accused the
government of condoning plans aimed at the country's
"federalization." MS

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