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U.S. Legislators Discuss Antiterrorism Issues With Hungarian Ministers BUDAPEST, Jan 9, 2002 -- (BBC Monitoring) Text of report by Hungarian newspaper Nepszabadsag on 8 January. Two U.S. senators and a congressman visited Budapest over the weekend to chiefly discuss aspects of international antiterrorism cooperation. Ernest Hollings, Democrat chairman of the Senate trade committee, Richard Shelby, Republican deputy chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, and Republican Congressman Robin Cramer had talks with Ervin Demeter, minister without portfolio in charge of civil secret services, as well as the diplomats of the U.S. Embassy in Budapest. The three U.S. legislators met Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi yesterday. The United States might want to use the expertise of Hungarian specialists in fields including Central Asian languages and history to assist the Afghanistan mission, although Hungary has not received such a request yet, Martonyi said after the meeting. Hungary maintains its offer of sending a health-care unit to Afghanistan if required, Martonyi added. According to an [Hungarian news agency] MTI report, the foreign minister noted that secret service cooperation between the two countries was very intensive and successful. Martonyi also said that his negotiation partners had praised Hungary's cooperation with the United States following the terrorist attacks. Source: Nepszabadsag, Budapest, in Hungarian 8 Jan 02 p 3 (C) 2002 BBC Monitoring __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
