1987. április (33-52. szám) / HU_BFL_XIV_47_2
national minorities, which is certainly an unjustitiable inadequacy. This compares with the lowest number ot Hungárián citizens educated at the university level. The cultural discrimination against the Hungarians thus has -far— reaching repercussions and contributes to the degradation o-f this minority. The state -frontier between Czechoslovakia and Hungary will nőt be deprived o-f its stability; on the contrary, it will be reinforced and intuitively accepted as immutable it, in accordáhce with the internationally recognised covenants, a -free -flow ot people, ideas and intormation is allowed and it the contact between the members ot the Hungárián minority in Czechoslovakia and their mather nation and its cultural institutions proceeds unhindered. We tind the question ot the trontier's stability as well as the tacility ot an unimpeded transit all the more important today when the civil and legal problem ot the Hungárián minority has increasingly become a problem ot Slovak and Hungárián coexistence. Both our nations have alternated in the roles ot minority and majority over the centuries while their development had suftered under totálitarian conditions which suppressed public exchange ot opinions and the possibility ot a mutual understanding necessary tor easing the tension. The Committee to Detend the Rights ot the Hungárián Ethnic Minority is operating in highly troublesome circumstances. The latest events indicate that the ettorts concentrated on the acknowledgment ot the rights ot the Hungárián minority in Czechoslovakia will prove to be all the more a task ot securing the victory ot sense over the escalation ot passions. Charter 77 is ready to support this task with all the strength it can summán. 30 Mareh 1987 Jan Litomisky Libuse Silhanova Charter 77 spokesperson Charter 77 spokesperson Jan Vohryzek Charter 77 spokesperson- 2 -
