OMRI DAILY DIGEST
No. 7, 10 January 1996

HUNGARIAN POLICE TO SERVE IN BOSNIA. A senior Interior Ministry official
on 9 January said the government has accepted a UN Security Council
request to send a 50-member unarmed police contingent to Bosnia-
Herzegovina, Hungarian media reported. At present talks are under way to
clarify details, primarily on how the project will be financed. Foreign
Ministry spokesman Gabor Szentivanyi told reporters that the Hungarian
police team may leave for Bosnia in February or March, primarily to act
as advisers and provide security for escort teams. He also confirmed
that Russia has officially applied for and received permission to use
Hungarian air space to fly its IFOR contingent to Bosnia. --  Zsofia
Szilagyi

PLAN TO COMBAT BLACK MARKET EMPLOYMENT IN HUNGARY. The Interest
Coordination Council, which is composed of government, trade union, and
employer representatives, have drawn up a plan to create a central
registry on labor data to combat black market employment, Magyar Hirlap
reported on 10 January. Unions and employers agreed on the need for
increased controls on employees and proposed that related legislation be
passed later this year. Employers will soon have to keep a so-called
employment diary on their employees. Fines of up to 50,000 forints can
be imposed on companies that fail to provide the required documents. --
Zsofia Szilagyi

UPDATE ON IFOR DEPLOYMENT. Almost 60% of IFOR has arrived in the former
Yugoslavia, international agencies reported on 9 January. Of the
expected total of 60,000, about 31,000 troops are in place in Bosnia and
another 4,000 are in Croatia and Hungary providing logistic support.
About 5,000 of the expected 20,000 U.S. troops have arrived. Abut 11,000
of the planned 13,000 British troops and 7,500 of the 10,000 French
troops are in position, although many of the these were previously
assigned to the UN force. IFOR is tasked to begin patrolling the line
separating the Bosnian Serbs and the Muslim-Croatian federation by 19
January. -- Michael Mihalka

[As of 12:00 CET]

Compiled by Jan Cleave