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RFE/RL NEWSLINE  19 November 1999

SLOVAK COALITION PARTNERS DEBATE OVER MINISTERS. The
Hungarian Coalition Party (SMK), a member of the governing
coalition, has called for the resignation of Deputy Prime
Minister for Legislation Lubomir Fogas and Agriculture
Minister Pavol Kocos, "Narodna Obroda" reported on 19
November. Both ministers are members of the Party of the
Democratic Left (SDL). SDL chairman Jozef Migas rejected the
SMK's calls. CTK reported that the SMK did not support
Fogas's bill on minority languages and that it was upset at
Koncos's refusal to fulfill an agreement according to which
an SMK member is to be appointed to head the State Land Fund.
Cabinet discussions on the performance of the coalition
government during its first year in office are to continue
next week. VG

ORBAN URGES MINORITY ACTION AT OSCE SUMMIT. Hungarian Prime
Minister Viktor Orban on 18 November urged OSCE member
countries at the Istanbul summit to grant local government
rights and autonomy to national minorities. He said a lesson
of the Kosova crisis is that genocide cannot be averted
without a system of defending minorities. Orban urged the
OSCE to send observers to Vojvodina and Muslim-inhabited
regions of Serbia to monitor the situation of minorities. MSZ

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