STANDPOINT
ON THE 4TH SESSION
OF THE JOINT PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE
OF THE EU AND SR ON JUNE 16-18, 1997, BRATISLAVA
Bratislava, June 20, 1997
The Political Movement Coexistnce
- supports the fulfilment of the Copenhagen criteria for the affiliation
to the European Union in the shortest possible time,
- attaches great importance to the possibility of the Slovak Republic
to join the European Union,
- consideres the affiliation of vital importance for all citizens of
the state and therefore it stands for the joining of the Slovak Republic
to the European Union,
- stresses the responsibility of the present Slovak Government towards
future generations of the inhabitants of the state for the tendencies of
the political development and economical progress which determine the future
of Slovakia,
therefore it
- welcomes the last chance for the integration of the Slovak Republic
into the European Union emerging from the recomendations of the 4th session
of the Joint Parliamentary Committee,
- considers for important the possible participation of Hungarian MPs
in the new special control commissions supervising the secret services,
- hails the reiterated initiative in support of the legislative solution
of the problems of minority language use till the end of November 1997,
- calls the attention of the government to the fact that the solution
of the usage of languages of national minorities - of the Hungarian national
community - by a special law
- is subject of the international political credibility of the Slovak
Republic,
- is possible only with the effective participation of the representatives
of the Hungarian Coalition in the Parliament of the Slovak Republic,
- will impede the further growing of tension in the society.
Coexistence
is convinced that if the integration efforts of the present government
are really sincere then it will make the necessary steps even in a shorter
time surmounting thus the obstacles which it created by its policy until
now.
Árpád DUKA-ZÓLYOMI, First
Vice President
István BATTA, Vice President
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