RFE/RL Daily Report
No. 171, 8 September 1994
SLOVAK FOREIGN MINISTER CRITICIZES BALLADUR. Eduard Kukan told
journalists in Bratislava on 7 September that Slovakia "demands an
explanation of the recent statements made by French Prime Minister
Edouard Balladur in Le Figaro." Balladur had said no changes of
borders in Europe were possible and that was "why France proposed
the Pact of Stability in Europe." He had also said he hoped a
conference scheduled for 1995 would solve, among others, "the
question of the Hungarian minority in Central Europe and
problematic relations between Russia and the Baltic States." In
Kukan's opinion, Balladur had narrowed the agenda of the Pact of
Stability to the issue of the Hungarian minority in Central Europe
and that was "unacceptable to Slovakia." He stressed that such
statements do not "reflect the situation of the Hungarian minority
in Slovakia." Jiri Pehe, RFE/RL, Inc.
CONSTRUCTION STARTS ON GYOR-BAUMGARTEN PIPELINE. Construction of a
gas pipeline that will join the Hungarian network with Western
Europe began on 7 September, MTI reports. The two-way pipeline,
which is to run from Gyor to Baumgarten, will play an important
role in supplying both Austria and Hungary with up to 4.5 billion
cubic meters of natural gas each year. This means that Hungary
will no longer be entirely dependent on natural gas from the East.
The pipeline is due to be completed by October 1996. Judith
Pataki, RFE/RL, Inc.
[As of 1200 CET]
Compiled by Penny Morvant and Jan Cleave
Copyright 1994, RFE/RL, Inc. All rights reserved.
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