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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:26:20 EST
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- From: George Frajkor <gfrajkor@CCS.CARLETON.CA>
- Subject: Re: Nice, nice,
- very nice - to be in the same device! Kurt Vonnegut
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- "s565havra@IKEVAX.ENERGIETECHNIK.UNI-STUTTGART.DE" at Jan 21,
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- s565havra@IKEVAX.ENERGIETECHNIK.UNI-STUTTGART.DE writes:
- >
- > What is the 'Slovak conception of a common state'? I have never heared about
- > a detailed sytematical formulation of a programme available to anybody and
- > backed by a reasonable part of the Slovaks. The Czech people would
- have appreciated to understand in detail what the Slovaks were going for rather
- > than what the Czechs didn't want. Can you really refuse something you don't
- > know anything about? Now it doesn't matter anymore, of course.
-
- Do I have to repost those poll results again, for the umpteenth
- time? It would seeem clear from them that the Slovak conception
- supported by the majority of Slovaks is either a Confederation of two
- equal states, or a federation in which Slovaks are equal partners, or
- a federation arrived at by treaty between two equal republics. What
- exactly do you find unclear about it? It is obvious this is clear to
- the Czechs, since according to the polls they refused to accept it.
-
- >Instead, I remember just isolated ideas like: Chinese model, the
- capital city
- >should periodically move from Prague to Bratislava and back,separate
- currency> systems, armies, foreign policy and other ideas.
-
- Both the VPN government under Meciar and Carnogursky, and then
- the HZDS government under Meciar, spent a great deal of time
- negotiating the so-called "competency" laws (jurisdiction is what we
- would call it ) during which they went into great detail about what
- each state wanted. It is there that it became clear neither state
- could accept what the other wanted. The discussion on the jurisdiction
- laws was neither unclear nor secret, as one of the reasons
- Carnogursky's government fell is that he was considered to have given
- away too much. I can only refer you to the newspapers of the time if
- you want to know the details.
-
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