1988. augusztus (184-207. szám) / HU_BFL_XIV_47_2

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188/1988 (E) llth August, 1988

Press Gonference in Vienna About the Bos-Nagymaros Dam

On Thursday moming the Austrian Ecological Society and the International "World Wildlife Fund" held a press conference in Vienna in the Landtmonn cafe about the Bos-Nagymaros dam. The speakers at the conference, to which a number of big papers, La- varian Rádió and Austrian Television and Rádió sent reporters, were well-known rep- resentatives of the Hungárián environmentalist movement - János Vargha, László Szekeres and Pál Lovas - who pressed fór greater intemational protest and said among other things that the Bos-Nagymaros investment would sentence greater areas of forest to death than Hainburg, the dam which was stopped, would have done. Karoly Kiszely who recently emigrated frora Hungary pointed out that all the promises to purify sewage was humbug as the Budapest water purifying plánt had been out of action fór somé time: the toxic waste will be diverted intő the Danube. An Austrian ecologist said that as a democrat and environmentalist he was deeply ashamed of the selfish Austrian support of the investment. He told joumalists that the President of the Austrian Parliament withhelda petition by 700 Hungárián citizens until such a time when according to Parliamentary law it could nőt be debated. The signatories of the appeal have now submitted their petition again, this is the first time when citizens of a communist country have turnéd to the Austrian Parliamentary system fór help.

János Blumgrund who lives in Vienna, President of the Hungárián Humán Rights Group, raisea the question of responsibility. In Hungary, the lecturers replied, it is nőt usual to hold replaced politicians responsible.

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