OMRI DAILY DIGEST
No. 185,  24 September 1996

HUNGARIAN PARLIAMENT CRITICIZES SLOVAK BAN ON FOREIGN ANTHEMS. The
Alliance of Free Democrats (SZDSZ), the junior coalition partner, and
the opposition parties on 23 September strongly criticized the Slovak
parliament's recent ban on singing foreign national anthems in public,
Hungarian media reported. They argued that the ban violates the basic
treaty between the two countries, which entered into force earlier this
year. The Foreign Ministry has already protested the issue to Slovakia.
Opposition politicians warned that there is no guarantee that Romania
will not act in a similar fashion, thereby violating the basic treaty it
signed with Hungary last week. Meanwhile, the opposition has called on
the government to clarify why both countries' media were given a
preliminary rather than final version of the text of the Romanian-
Hungarian treaty. -- Zsofia Szilagyi

MAJOR HASHISH SEIZURE IN ROMANIA. In the biggest drugs seizure in
Romania so far this year, border police on 20 September confiscated more
than 4.5 tons of hashish at a crossing point on the border with Hungary,
Jurnalul national and Reuters reported on 23 September. The drugs were
hidden in two containers filled with furniture. Romanian investigators
are cooperating with the Bulgarian and Turkish police to find out how
the drugs were smuggled into Romania. -- Dan Ionescu


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