RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
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RFE/RL NEWSLINE  1 March 1999

SLOVAKIA 'REGRETS' SECRET SERVICE OPERATIONS AGAINST
HUNGARY. Ervin Demeter, an Hungarian intelligence
official, told journalists in Budapest on 26 February
that the Slovak government has admited to carrying out
secret service operations against Hungary during
Vladimir Meciar's tenure as prime minister. He added
that it "regreted" those actions. Demer also said that
the Hungarian secret services had been aware of, and had
successfully countered, the Slovak secret service's
activities. The Hungarian Foreign Ministry welcomed the
admission as "evidence of a new era of cooperation
between the two countries," Foreign Ministry spokesman
told MTI the same day. Horvath said Slovakia's
ambassador to Hungary has handed over a note saying that
"the current Slovak government dissociates itself from
the perverseness of the past." MSZ/MS

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