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RFE/RL NEWSLINE  23 September 1999

COUNCIL OF EUROPE REPORT REFERS TO HUNGARIAN EXTREMISTS. An
appendix to a Council of Europe report notes that two
extremist parties have been represented in the Hungarian
parliament since 1998, Hungarian media reported on 23
September. The Hungarian Justice and Life Party (MIEP) is
referred to as a "xenophobic, anti-Semitic party" that
opposes NATO membership, while the ruling coalition
Independent Smallholders' Party is described as "Catholic,
conservative, xenophobic and anti-Western." MIEP Chairman
Istvan Csurka said he considers the appendix "a private
letter" commissioned by "Slovak, Romanian, and Serbian
elements that would very much like to ruin Hungary's
reputation." MSZ

HUNGARIAN, ROMANIAN FOREIGN MINISTERS MEET. Janos Martonyi
told his Romanian counterpart, Andrei Plesu, in New York on
22 September that he is satisfied with the Romanian cabinet's
denouncement of Cluj Mayor Gheorghe Funar's recent attacks on
the new Hungarian consul general in Romania, Laszlo Alfoldi
(see "RFE/RL Newsline," 17 September 1999). Plesu told
Martonyi that the Romanian government will soon earmark space
for a proposed Romanian-Hungarian "reconciliation park." MSZ

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