RFE/RL Daily Report
                   No. 130, 12 July 1994



CLUJ MUNICIPAL COUNCIL SEEKS ROMANIAN-HUNGARIAN CONFRONTATION. An
extraordinary session of the Cluj municipal council, which is
headed by the town's nationalist mayor, Gheorghe Funar, adopted a
resolution condemning the council's members who belong to the
Hungarian Democratic Federation of Romania, Radio Bucharest
reported on 11 July. The declaration says the HDFR municipal
counselors had "mislead Romanian and particularly international
public opinion" in their efforts to block the archeological digs
in the town's main square. It also called on the Romanian
government and on President Ion Iliescu to "firmly condemn the
declarations of the Hungarian government" on the digs. These
declarations, it was stated in language reminiscent of the
Ceausescu period, were "a blatant attempt to interfere in Romanian
internal affairs." Michael Shafir, RFE/RL Inc.


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