RFE/RL NEWSLINE 
Vol. 1, No. 102, 25 August1997

POLISH, HUNGARIAN, CZECH PREMIERS DISCUSS NATO. Wlodzimierz
Cimoszewicz of Poland, Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic, and Gyula
Horn of Hungary held talks on NATO enlargement in the Polish city of
Krakow on 22 August. RFE/RL's correspondent in Krakow reported
that the three prime ministers exchanged information regarding
their future negotiations on NATO membership. Representatives from
other countries' involved in negotiations with Brussels joined the
prime ministers at the talks. The meeting came six weeks after
NATO's invitation to begin membership negotiations.

SLOVAK PRIME MINISTER ON HUNGARIAN MINORITY PARTIES.
Vladimir Meciar, in his weekly radio address on 22 August, has
likened the country's ethnic Hungarian politicians to a Trojan horse.
Meciar was responding to Hungarian Prime Minister Gyula Horn's
request during recent bilateral talks in Gyoer, Hungary, for
Hungarian minority representation on various Slovak government
committees. Meciar said Hungary should stop talking about minority
Hungarian minority representation on various Slovak government
committees. Meciar said Hungary should stop talking about minority
representatives and instead openly admit that it wants
representatives of Hungarian minority parties on those committees.
Meciar said that he is not going "to put a Trojan horse on a
government committee." He added that ethnic Hungarian politicians
want to be on Slovak government committees but at the same time
refuse to talk to the Slovak government.

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