CCCCC AA RRRRR OOOO LL II NN N AA CC AA A RR R OO O LL II NNN N AA A CC AA A RRRRR OO O LL II NN N N AA A CC AAAAAA RR R OO O LL II NN NN AAAAAA CCCCC AA A RR R OOOO LLLLLL II NN N AA A STUDENT'S E-MAIL NEWS FROM CZECHOSLOVAKIA School of Social Science of Charles University Smetanovo nabr. 6 110 01 Prague 1 C.S.F.R. e-mail address: CAROLINA@CSEARN.BITNET *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* C A R O L I N A No 28, Friday, May 22, 1992. THE EVENTS OF THE LAST WEEK (from May 13-20) The Denouncement of the Agreement Jozsef Antal, the Hungarian Prime minister, sent to Marian Calfa, the Prime Minister of CSFR, the denouncement of the interntaional agreement on Gabcikovo-Nagymarosz construction from 1977. Statement of 40 pages is a part of denouncement. Czech-Slovakian side is accused that didn't take in the consideration law and possible ecological consequences and eliminated the cooperation with EC. Hungaria is willing to cooperate on the problems appearing after the denouncement but ecological point of view has to be included. According to Marian Calfa is the decision of the Hungarian government unacceptable and it is contraversial to international law. Jan Carnogursky, the Chairman of Slovakian government, views other negotiations as discusting. Major and Mandela to Prague The British Prime Minister John Major will visit Czechoslovakia from May 26-28. Major will visit Poland and Hungaria on his way around the Middle Europe too. Major should confirm the support that Great Britan will provide to the new democrasies in Eastern Europe and their possible membershipin the EC. Nelson Mandela, the chairman of the African National Congress, will come to Prague too. He started his journey around European countries last week. He is planning to visit Norway, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland and Czechoslovakia. The First Run Has started The first run of voucher privatization was started on May 18. The owners of coupons will give them to the businesses directly. The first run will end on June 8. The results of the first run should be evaulated till June 30. The owner will be informed if his demand was satisfied and if he got the shares of bussiness where he sent his coupons. If he failed to get the shares, his coupons will proceed to next run of privatization. The second run will take shorter period because less demanders will take part in it. Total offer is 300 billion Kcs of property in the first run of privatization. The rate between shares nad coupons is 3: 100 and it is same for all share companies. Each of owners of registrated voucher book has 1000 coupons that he can divide to more businesses. Minimal amount of investment is 100 coupons. Petr Pithart in Belgium Petr Pithart, the Prime Minister of the Czech government, visited Belgium. He was invited by Luc van den Brand, the Executive President of Flandern. The declaration aboutrelationships between Czech republic and Flandern was signed. Van den Brande considers the cooperation with Czech republic as most important compare to the coope Minister. Dagmar Buresova, the Chairman of Czech Parliament is the member of OH too. Many people from disent are members of the party but the party can't be called as disident party. The radical economical reform is pointed out in the programme. The original economical plan is the basis that should be adopted to changing situation. The state has to interfer economy minimally but can't avoid certain responsibility in the period of transfer. The idea of maximal decentralization is promoted in the state administration. The principle of self-administration is prefered. The coalition partners after election will be other parties of former Civic Forum -ODS and ODA. The support of OH is changing from 4-7%. Slovak National Party {SNS} Slovak National Party was founded in the beginning of 1990. The large support of people is seen in the Federal Parliment and Slovak Parliament. The chairman of SNS is Jozef Prokes. SNS is national oriented party fighting for Slovak interests. It promotes the independent Slovak state. That's why it did not participate in the negotiations on the Czech-Slovak President election . The party criticise the economic reform and lustrace law. SNS cooperates closely with Slovak "Matice"- the cultural, national organization with big influence. Surveys shows the support between 9-11% that means SNS is the third most supported party in Slovakia. CULTURAL SERVICE Muse Minister. Dagmar Buresova, the Chairman of Czech Parliament is the member of OH too. Many people from disent are members of the party but the party can't be called as disident party. The radical economical reform is pointed out in the programme. The original economical plan is the basis that should be adopted to changing situation. The state has to interfer economy minimally but can't avoid certain responsibility in the period of transfer. The idea of maximal decentralization is promoted in the state administration. The principle of self-administration is prefered. The coalition partners after election will be other parties of former Civic Forum -ODS and ODA. The support of OH is changing from 4-7%. Slovak National Party {SNS} Slovak National Party was founded in the beginning of 1990. The large support of people is seen in the Federal Parliment and Slovak Parliament. The chairman of SNS is Jozef Prokes. SNS is national oriented party fighting for Slovak interests. It promotes the independent Slovak state. That's why it did not participate in the negotiations on the Czech-Slovak President election . The party criticise the economic reform and lustrace law. SNS cooperates closely with Slovak "Matice" - the cultural, national organization with big influence. Surveys shows the support between 9-11% that means SNS is the third most supported party in Slovakia. CULTURAL SERVICE Museum in Naarden Jozef Miklosko, the vice-chairman of Czechoslovak government, participated in the celebration of 400th anniversary of Jan Amos Komensky in Netherlands on May 16. The museum of Jan Amos Komensky was opened. WEATHER The summer is comming to Czechoslovakia. Last suterday the highest temperature was more then 28 Celsia. However, sunday was getting coulder. Now the day top temperature is about 18-21 C. The weekend should be again hot. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This news may be published only with "CAROLINA" designation. 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