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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:09:06 EST
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- From: George Frajkor <gfrajkor@CCS.CARLETON.CA>
- Subject: Re: Ad fontes! Slovensko v Ceskoslovensku by Jan Mechyr.(ISBN a
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- "s565havra@IKEVX1.ENERGIETECHNIK.UNI-STUTTGART.DE" at Jan 25,
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- s565havra@IKEVX1.ENERGIETECHNIK.UNI-STUTTGART.DE writes:
- > I am still completely unclear in what the Slovaks exactly mean by
- "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".
- Is there a draft of the treaty available? Was the draft published in
- the Czech Republic? Were there discussions on the particularities of the draft
- > in the media and what was the publicity of the draft in both the Slovak and
- > the Czech Republics?
-
- Write to the Christian Democratic Party and ask for the copy
- of the treaty as they proposed it. I have thrown away the only copy I
- had. I doubt that it was published in the Czech media as they do not
- habitually care much about what Slovaks say. Yes, all proposals were
- widely published in slovakia and debated to the point where
- Carnogursky was defeated and Meciar elected BECAUSE of their
- proposals.
-
- > Did the Slovaks really take care to explain precisely
- > what they meant by an equal partnership?
-
- In 1848, Stur's declaration of independence.
- in 1861, the declaration of Martin.
- in 1917, the Pittsburgh Agreement
- in 1938, the Zilina agreement
- in 1945 the Kosice agreement
- in 1968 the federation of the state.
- If the Czechs have not yet read any of these, I would not
- be surprised.
-
- > Now it's important to make everybody clear, that after the "Jurisdiction Law"
- > had passed the Parliament on Dec.12, 1990 and The Declaration of the State
- > Sovreignity of the SR was declared in March 1991 the Slovaks has been given
- > any possible support by the Czech representation to play an equal role in
- > a common state.
-
- One can name Carnogursky's treaty proposal and Meciar's
- confederation plans. Name the Czech initiatives for equal
- participation.
-
- > Still everything what the Czech representation has ever done
- > was not enough and the Slovak representation clearly went for a partition and
- > a total dissolution of the hated
- > "stepmother colonialist and ungrateful abuser Czechoslovakia"!
-
- Meciar's and Carnogrusky's proposals were for a union of some
- kind.
- Klaus' was for a unitary state or no union at all.
- I can't recall a
- statement by anyone in Slovakia that speaks of hatred for the
- federation or the Czech people.
-
- > For particular Czechs, originating from Central Bohemia, particularly from
- > Slany like me, it always has not been easy to understand what the Slovaks
- > really want.
-
- Try reading Slovak history and slovak publications.
-
-
- > Keeping this in mind I should like to know why the kokoti in and around
- > Slany should be interested in any 'loose federation', a 'union' or a
- > 'confederation' with such a partner who has just crashed the common state in
- > the way he did? (see Jan Mechyr: Slovensko v Ceskoslovensku, Prace, 1991,
- > ISBN 80-208-0225-8)
-
- The Common state was legally dissolved by a legally elected
- federal government and not by any one of the two parties. Dissolution
- by unilateral declaration of any republic, or bilateral agreement of
- the two republics,were among the options that
- could have been used if the federal assembly had not voted to dissolve
- it. All parties agreed with the exception of the CZech Communists,
- Slovak Communists, Czech neo-nazis, Slovak reform Communists and Czech
- reform Communists, and the Christian Democratic party, who
- wanted to keep the country together.
- But in the end even they could not go against the tide, as the
- popular will was pretty clear.
-
-
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