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date=8/22/94
type=correspondent report
number=2-163955
title= Central Europe Meet (l only)
byline= Wayne Corey
dateline= Vienna
content=
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Intro:  A nine-nation summit meeting of Central and Eastern 
European countries has ended in Austria with renewed calls for 
European integration.  V-o-A's Wayne Corey reports from Vienna.

Text:  The heads of state, who attended the pleasant gathering in
the Austrian Alpine resort of Alpbach, solved none of the world's
major problems.

But, that was  not  their objective.  They focused on regional 
issues, especially the integration of former European communist 
states into Europe as a whole.

Austrian president Thomas Klestill said the European Union will 
lose its legitimacy if it includes only Western European 
countries despite the end of the cold war.

Austria is joining the E-U in January.  Eastern European 
countries, especially Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, are
very eager to join it, too.

But, the man due to become the new European commission president,
Jacques Santer, said the former communist countries still have to
carry out economic reforms.

In an interview with radio Austria, Mr. Santer said Eastern 
European nations have a lot of courage but have many problems to 
overcome over the next five years or so.  He added, though, that 
the E-U has a moral obligation to help them.

German president Roman Herzog said Germany is  not  trying to 
dominate the E-U.  He said whatever influence Germany may have is
balanced by French influence.  

The heads of state of Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, 
Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland
attended the 50th Alpbach European Forum.

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There were many bilateral meetings.  Czech president Vaclav Havel
and the German president discussed the property rights of ethnic 
Germans who had to leave what was then Czechoslovakia after World
War Two.

The Austrian president and his Italian counterpart, Oscar Luigi 
Scalfaros discussed a dispute over an Austrian Tyrolean activist,
Karola Unterkircher.  She was arrested in Italy last week on 
charges of being involved in a terrorist bombing campaign in 
Northern Italy in the 1980's.

Austria would like Italy to declare an amnesty and free her.  But
president Scalfaro said the case is a routine police matter and 
should  not  affect Austrian/Italian relations.  (Signed)

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22-Aug-94 1:37 pm edt (1737 utc)
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source: Voice of America