RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
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RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol 2, No. 67, 7 April 1998

POLAND DENIES ALLEGATIONS OF SPYING ON NATO. Polish Prime
Minister Jerzy Buzek on 6 April denied allegations that
Poland is spying on its future allies in NATO. The German
magazine "Der Spiegel" of 4 April had reported that
intelligence agents from Poland, Hungary, and the Czech
Republic maintain contacts with Russian spies and that the
three East-Central European countries have tried to plant
agents at NATO headquarters in Brussels. "There are no such
activities on our part," Buzek said, according to the 7
April "Zycie Warszawy." Janusz Palubicki, coordinator for
Poland's intelligence services, also denied the allegations
and told the Polish daily that "Der Spiegel" had been
"either poorly informed or misinformed by NATO opponents."
JM

HORN OPPOSES DUAL CITIZENSHIP FOR ETHNIC HUNGARIANS. Prime
Minister Gyula Horn on 6 April rejected a proposal by Sandor
Csoori, president of the World Federation of Hungarians, to
grant citizenship to ethnic Hungarians living abroad. Horn
said the proposal is a campaign ploy and could damage
Hungary's relations with its neighbors. Hungary's borders
will not close after the country joins the EU, he added. The
opposition Young Democrats, meanwhile, support the idea of
granting ethnic Hungarians a "special status" in Hungary,
while the Hungarian Democratic Forum has made other
proposals, including visas valid for up to 10 years and
limited citizenship, Hungarian media reported. MSZ

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