1988. 1988.05.10. Interjú Kádár Jánossal / HU_BFL_XIV_47_2

MCLAUGHLIN: When was the last time you had an official

State visit with the head of Hungary, Mr. Ceausescu?

KADAR: A long time ago, a long time ago.

MCLAUGHLIN: Last year you went to China — you went to Peking. All the way over there. Ceausescu's right on your bordér. You have foreign relations with him. Why has there been no contact between you and him? He leaves something to be desired as a leader?

KADAR: That is the Romanians' affair, the evaluation of

their own leaders. Hungarian-Romanian relations include many unsolved problems, and fór this reason, such high-level visits are nőt timely at the present moment because they could lead to misunderstandings.

MCLAUGHLIN: There have been, or there will be shortly,

four superpower summits. Geneva, Reykjavik, Washington D.C. and soon Moscow. What about a fifth summit between Gorbachev and Reagan here in Budapest to talk about in December the START 50/50 ICBM ceiling?

KADAR: We have welcomed the solution in Washington

concerning the reduction of nuclear weapons, that is the two classes of European nuclear weapons. We alsó welcome the current negotiations in which they are discussing strategic nuclear weapons. How that stands or doesn't stand, I cannot judge accurately. We alsó welcome the fact of the Moscow meeting. Now, what you have raised in the form of a question here, I know about this. This has been disseminated as a result of news item published in a Japanese newspaper. The possiblity was raised that they may meet here. I have nőt encountered this question realistically, bút if it arises and turns out to happen, then we will be honored, and are ready to play the role of hőst.

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MCLAUGHLIN: General Secretary Gorbachev, will Mikhail Gorbachev succeed or will he be treated as was Khrushchev?

KADAR: He will be successful.

MCLAUGHLIN: How long will it take?

KADAR: It'll take years before serious results can be

seen.

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