The Slovak cabinet yesterday recommended that President Ivan Gasparovic appoint Peter Weiss as the next ambassador to Hungary, replacing Juraj Migas, Népszabadság reports, quoting a confidential source.
Slovak Foreign Ministry spokesman Ján Skoda merely told the daily that the new ambassador’s name will be made public once he has been formally appointed and has been accepted by Hungary.
Migas was appointed to the Budapest post in November 2004.
Primarily Prime Minister Robert Fico favours Weiss, 57, presumably because he has good ties with several Hungarian Socialist Party leaders and left-wing intellectuals, Népszabadság observes.
Hungarian Coalition Party vice president Miklós Duray recalled that “Weiss was a member of the institution that, when I was imprisoned for the second time declared that I must be punished for what I did in Czechoslovakia,” Magyar Hírlap reports. Despite this, Duray remarked that Weiss will represent a new position and not necessarily a negative one in Hungarian-Slovak relations.
Coalition Party president Pál Csáky said he and Weiss were able to work together without any problems on the Slovak Parliament’s foreign affairs committee.
Ah ! Weiss, the Jewish Socialist –just what we need !
Smart choice neither Hungarian nor a Slav
D))))))))))) But if it’s true what Duray says he
should not be accepted! It’s odd enough Austria
and Croatia does not find it disturbing to their
national entity send someone who speaks some
Hungarian. But of course if you steel the
population the land and a language from other
countries ( not only Hungary, Poland and the
Checks “contributed” as well D))) and having a
history fitting into an A4 page (leaving enough
clean space for origami) than you really have to
justify and proove yourself in every possible
way….LOL