1988. szeptember (209-245. szám) / HU_BFL_XIV_47_2
í «H9N$AfMAN smL Editor: György Krassó * 24/D Little Russell Street * London, WC1A 2HN * Tel. 01-430 2126 (írom abroad 441-430 2126) 234/1988 (E) 18th September, 1988 Hungarians Participate in the ”0pen Borders" Conference in Vienna Vienna traditionally holds an "Open Doors" meeting every Autumn in which representatives of foreign cultural and political life take part. This year special emphasis was Iáid on Hungárián participation which is in part to do with plans to organise the Hungarian-Austrian world exhibition in 1996. The Viennese branch of the International Humán Rights Society based in Frankfurt and the Vice-President of the Austrian Peoples Party, Dr Erhard Busek thought that in addition to the official Hungárián delegation it would be fitting to present the unofficial Hungárián representatives to Austrian journalists and the generál public. Thus on Friday and Saturday, September l6-17th, the independent democratic movements made their Viennese debut. On Friday four people held a press conference in the Landtmann Café: Sándor Rácz, President of the Greater Budapest Central Workers Council in 1956, Sándor Radnóti aesthetician, Ottilia Solt sociologist and Tibor Philipp translator. The journalists primarily asked questions about the Hungárián political situation and its outlook, the fate of the Tronsylvanian Hungárián minority and the Bős-Nagymaros dam. Racz said that conditions fór ordinary people were increasingly hard in Hungary and that Grósz had forfeited the new political leadership, creating little confidence with his declarations about the revolution and by the behaviour he displayed at the Arad meeting. Radnóti stressed that as independent parties could nőt be formed in Hungary the proliferation of autonomous movements signified that the Hungárián nation had chosen a multi-party system. Tibor Philipp reported on the circumstances and numbers of imprisoned conscientious objectors. The publicist of Die Presse. Peter Martos, who is of Hungárián origin said that he had heard from Soviet Water Authority experts that the Soviet Union was nőt interested in the construction of the Nagymaros section of the dam. On Saturday the Hungárián guests organised a whole day conferenee entitled "Open Borders" in the Town Hall Café, it began with another press conference. During the public meeting, in which about 250 people took part, seven 1 hour meetings were held which consisted of an approximately twenty minute lecture followed by questions, re- sponses and additional speeches. Apart from those who participated in the previous conference Sándor Csoori poet, András Gergely and Lajos Für historians, István Szenti- vanyi ethnographer, László Szekeres photographer and others alsó reported on the new Hungárián democratic groupings, the fate of the Hungárián Transylvanians, the situation of the churches and the initiatives of independent unions. Two representatives of the Young Democrats Alliance alsó spoke, Amzel Bárány and Tamas Tirtsch, who invited the audience to the YDA*s two-day congress on October lst. A speech by Dr Erhard Busek closed the suc’cessful meeting after which the Hungárián guests had supper with Austrian M.P.s. JL/ Subscribers can use or quote the Hungárián October newsletters in totál or in detail as long as the source is acknowledged.
