OMRI DAILY DIGEST
No. 46, 6 March 1997

HUNGARY CONTINUES PRESENTING ITS CASE AT THE HAGUE. Hungary's legal
representatives opened up a barrage of legal arguments on 5 March
against the Gabcikovo hydropower project built by Slovakia, after it
unilaterally diverted the Danube in 1992, Hungarian media reported.
Boldizsar Nagy argued that the project called "C version" is essentially
different from the power plant system that Hungary and Czechoslovakia
agreed to build in their 1977 intergovernmental treaty. Nagy thus
rejected the Slovak argument that Slovakia merely tried to complete
construction of the original project after Hungary backed out in 1989.
Hungary's representatives criticized the Slovak use of what they called
inappropriate words in the Slovak legal document. Gyorgy Szenasi,
Hungary's chief representative, said that Hungary has filed a list of
words used by the Slovaks that includes "grotesque, nonsense, twaddle,
perverse and ridiculous," Magyar Hirlap reported. -- Zsofia Szilagyi

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