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Hungarian News Agency December 17, 2009 Pecs council puts up illegal roadblock to stop construction of NATO facility The local council of Pecs has erected a road block on the road leading to the construction site of the NATO radar site on Tubes hill overlooking the south Hungarian city, the county mayor told a news conference on Wednesday. Zsolt Pava, the (opposition Fidesz) mayor of Pecs, said that the road block follows the erection of a highway sign forbidding lorries over 3.5 tonnes from using the road leading to the site. Government spokesman Domokos Szollar said that the local council's actions were "shocking" and "unacceptable".... A Budapest court on November 27 gave the green light to the project by rejecting a lawsuit seeking to block construction of the radar. Pava said that he would lead a protest against the construction of the radar over the next couple of days. The road block was put up after the local council received information that construction is scheduled to start on Friday, said Pava. "I have up until now trusted that the government would not go ahead and get entangled in this issue now, days before Christmas, but this is not the case, so we are taking up the gauntlet," he said. Pava said that he had also promised to fight as mayor on behalf of 38,000 local residents who oppose the project. A local green NGO opposing the radar told MTI that former Parliamentary Speaker, Katalin Szili of the ruling Socialists, is expected to join the protest on Friday. Szili, along with Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom, earlier voiced strong objections to the radar plans. =========================== Stop NATO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato Blog site: http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/ To subscribe, send an e-mail to: rwroz...@yahoo.com or stopnato-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Daily digest option available. ============================== --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST --^---------------------------------------------------------------- This email was sent to: arch...@mail-archive.com EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bNM5nn.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: antinato-unsubscr...@topica.com For Topica's complete suite of email marketing solutions visit: http://www.topica.com/?p=TEXFOOTER --^----------------------------------------------------------------
