RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
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RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol 3, No. 18, 27 January 1999

HUNGARIAN, SLOVAK, AUSTRIAN LEADERS MEET. Hungarian
Premier Viktor Orban hosted his Slovak counterpart,
Mikulas Dzurinda, and Austrian Chancellor Viktor Klima
for a one-day summit in Sopron, Hungary, AP reported on
26 January. Orban said the focus of the talks was
regional cooperation, specifically, the creation of a
development zone within the Bratislava-Vienna-Gyoer
triangle. He said a meeting will be held in Gyoer in
September at which business leaders will also take part.
Dzurinda said Slovakia "must prove capable of
cooperation in the trilateral community if we want to
become a part of the EU." Klima expressed Vienna's
interest in tightening borders to prevent cross-border
crime and the flight of illegal aliens to the West. PB

MORE THAN 100 ILLEGAL ALIENS CAUGHT IN HUNGARY. Border
guards and police have caught more than 100 illegal
aliens in two separate incidents in Hungary, AP reported
on 26 January. Sixty Bangladeshis were found hiding in a
truck in Budapest. The previous day, a group of more
than 40 Albanians were found in a truck on the highway
to Budapest. PB

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