RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
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RFE/RL NEWSLINE 3 May 1999

SOCIALISTS OPPOSE USE OF HUNGARIAN AIR SPACE FOR NATO
BOMBINGS. The opposition Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP)
wants to modify the text of a parliamentary resolution
allowing NATO to use Hungarian air space and airports for its
actions against Yugoslavia. It proposes adding a clause to
the document saying that no attack can be launched on Serbia
from Hungarian territory. Ferenc Juhasz, the Socialist deputy
chairman of parliament's Defense Committee, said a new
situation arose when Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced at
the NATO summit in Washington that NATO aircraft taking off
from Hungary might bomb Yugoslavia, Hungarian media reported
on 3 May. MSZP chairman Laszlo Kovacs accused the government
of "increasingly losing control over the situation." MSZ

HUNGARIAN INTELLECTUALS APPEAL FOR BALKAN PEACE. Fifty
prominent Hungarian intellectuals and politicians have
published an appeal to end the war in the Balkans, Hungarian
media reported on 3 May. The appeal calls on the governments
of NATO countries to suspend bombing in Yugoslavia and begin
negotiations. It urges Hungary to exercise its veto right
provided by NATO membership, engage in "constructive
abstention," and exert pressure on its allies to ensure that
the war does not spread to neighboring countries. MSZ

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