RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
________________________________________________________
RFE/RL NEWSLINE 22 October 1999

HUNGARY SUBMITS LIST OF LOST ART WORK TO RUSSIA. The
Hungarian Embassy in Moscow on 21 October submitted to the
Russian Foreign Ministry a list of Hungarian art works that
are believed to have been taken to Russia during and after
World War II, Hungarian media reported. According to a law
passed in Russia last year, the art works are now considered
Russian state property. However, that law provides for
bilateral negotiations in certain cases. In other news, the
Federation of Jewish Religious Communities in Hungary has
said that it is "shocked" by last week's unveiling of a
plaque to commemorate the Hungarian gendarmerie that actively
took part in the internment of some 430,000 Jews in ghettos
during World War II. The plaque is dedicated to those
gendarmes who were killed in action during the war. MSZ

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
               Copyright (c) 1999 RFE/RL, Inc.
                     All rights reserved.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx