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1/11/2005 – The Szabadka Initiative: AHF signs joint declaration of the Szabadka Initiative by ethnic Hungarian political parties and human rights organizations from successor states in an appeal to the Hungarian Government for more coherent support, coordinated planning, and dual citizenship.
AHF was among the fifteen organizations from Europe, North America, and Latin America that met January 5-6, 2005 in Szabadka/Subotica (Vajdaság/Vojvodina, Serbia-Montenegro) to join forces in persuading the Government of the Republic of Hungary to coordinate with them its efforts to assist ethnic Hungarians living as national minorities in Romania, Slovakia, Serbia-Montenegro, Ukraine, Croatia, and Slovenia. [more] [see all AHF news]
1/10/2005 – AHF Members breaking ground on 1848 / 1956 Hungarian Memorial Monument in Lorain, Ohio. The cost is estimated at $30,000.00 and your help is needed! Donors who give $100.00 or more get their names inscribed in the stepping stones. Leave your mark and help us build this monument to Hungarian bravery and democracy. [more] [see all AHF news]
1/4/2005 – Hungarians have until September 2005 to formally request return of confiscated properties in Slovakia under theenes Decrees. The 1945 Benes Decrees claimed collective World War II responsibility of Germans and Hungarians living in Czechoslovakia, and deprived them of their rights, their property and expelled many of them from the country.
The “Szabad Ujsag” weekly has published a list of those lands, which were taken away during the Benes programs. The original owners or their descendants may recover expropriated lands and properties if they can prove their ownership and relationships to the original owner. The validated documents have to be shown to the proper authorities. One catch is that it has to be proven before September 1 of 2005.
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AHF in the News
More
Than Kosovo
Washington Post: Saturday, January 1, 2005; Page
A22
Morton Abramowitz and Heather Hurlburt are right
to urge strong U.S. involvement to help resolve the festering problem
of Kosovo [“Where to Start With Europe,” op-ed, Dec. 23].
They, however, do not go far enough. Any settlement of the situation
in Serbia must include the province of Vojvodina.
[more]
Támogatás, érdekek,
precedensek
Az Amerikai Magyar Szövetség képviseletében
Purger Tibor vett részt a Határon Túli Magyar
Szervezetek szabadkai fórumán (Support, Interests,
and Precedents: AHF’s Tibor Purger participates in the Subotica
Forum of Hungarians Beyond the Borders)
Magyar Szó, Újvidék, 2005. január
20
A Határon Túli Magyar Szervezetek szabadkai fórumának nyugatról érkezett részvevoi, így az Amerikai Magyar Szövetség képviseloje is, megfigyeloi státusban vettek részt a tanácskozáson. Lapunk washingtoni tudósítója, Purger Tibor az AMSZ délvidéki és balkáni ügyekkel foglalkozó tanácsadójaként szólalt fel, elmondta, hogy az 1906-ban alakult szervezetet miért foglalkoztatja a kettos állampolgárság ügye:[more]
Other International News
Utah
Gymnastics:
Complete Turnaround –
Onodi showing the talent that landed her at Utah
Lya Wodraska – The Salt Lake Tribune 1/21/2005
University of
Utah gymnast Gabriella Onodi is the most improved gymnast on the
team this year. Utah coach Greg Marsden and sophomore Gabi Onodi
are sitting in Marsden’s office, watching a tape of a gymnast neither
had seen in a while, a gymnast performing elite moves with strength,
confidence and crispness.
But this was no mystery gymnast. It was a tape on Onodi, clips that
were impressive enough for Marsden to offer the Hungarian a coveted
scholarship on his nationally ranked team. [more]
Emberjogi iroda nyílt Csíkszeredában (Human Rights Office Opens in Csikszereda, Transylvania buy Pro Europa League)Erdely Ma and Magyar Rádió – Jan 21, 2005
Hargita megyében is panasszal lehet fordulni a PRO EUROPA Ligához emberi jogok megsértése miatt. A PRO EUROPA Liga marosvásárhelyi civil szervezet ugyanis 2004. folyamán 20 személy számára biztosított emberjogi és kisebbségjogi képzést. Ennek eredményeként és az Open Society Institute támogatásával 2005. [more]
6%-kal nott a Fidesz támogatottsága
(Support for the Fidesz Party grew 6% – Fidesz now leads the ruling
Socialist Party, MSZP, 46% – 35% according to polling by Medián)
Medián:
HírTV
– 2005. Jan. 20
A Medián felmérése szerint 6 százalékkal
nott a Fidesz támogatottsága a biztos szavazók
körében. Az ellenzéki párt így
11 százalékkal elozi meg az MSZP-t. A Fideszre 46
százalék, az MSZP-re pedig 35 százalék
szavazna.
A közvélemény-kutatásból kiderül:
sem az SZDSZ sem az MDF támogatottsága sem éri
el a Parlamentbe jutáshoz szükséges arányt.
A népszeru politikusok listáját még mindig Dávid Ibolya MDF-elnök vezeti, ot követi Mádl Ferenc köztársasági elnök. Orbán Viktor, a Fidesz elnöke a 6., Gyurcsány Ferenc a 8. a mezonyben.
Slovak leaders declare “There is no
place for Autonomy in
Slovakia” for Hungarians
Erdely
Ma – Jan 19, 2005
Elzárkóznak a kisebbségi autonómia minden lehetséges formájától Szlovákia legfobb közjogi méltóságai – derült ki hétfon Pozsonyban az államfo, a házelnök és a kormányfo találkozója után.[more in Hungarian]
Attila descendants want recognition
By Kate Connolly, NewsTelegraph (UK) in Berlin –
1/12/2005
More than 2,000 Hungarian descendants of Attila the Hun, once described as the “Scourge of God”, are demanding official recognition as an ethnic minority. “As a member of the European Union, Hungary should not be suppressing a minority,” said Joshua Imre Novak, the group’s self-appointed leader. [more]
Hungarian
industry soars in November
UPI, Budapest- Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Hungarian industrial output rose by 10.5 percent year-on-year in November, far above market expectations. [more]
ROMANIAN
PRESIDENT SAYS RELATIONS WITH MOLDOVA ARE “FOREIGN POLICY
PRIORITY.”
RFE/RL
Newsline – Vol. 9, No. 76, Part II, 12 January 2005
In his 10 January interview with Realitatea TV, President Basescu said his country’s relations with Moldova are a “foreign policy priority,” Mediafax and Revista Presei Online reported the next day. Basescu said Romanian foreign policy in the last 10 years has neglected Moldova and the importance of the Black Sea region. As a result, he said, Romania finds itself “out of the game” in the search for a solution to the Transdniester conflict, despite the fact that Moldova has a “large [ethnic] Romanian majority.” He said he is ready to visit Chisinau and raise these issues with his Moldovan counterpart Vladimir Voronin. “Just as we granted the [ethnic] Hungarians all the rights, we are entitled to demand that all the rights of [ethnic] Romanians be respected, whether in the [Serbian] Timoc Valley or in the Moldovan Republic,” Basescu said.
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