UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, June 10, 1992
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Czech, Slovak leaders fear breakup of Czechoslovakia
The Associated Press
PRAIGUE, Czechoslovakia — Talks between the two rivals charged with governing Czechoslovakia broke up early yesterday without agreement on how to prevent the country from splitting.
"The federation is lost," Vaclav Klaus, a Czech, told reporters after meeting with populist Slovak leader Vladimir Meciar. His remarks were broadcast repeatedly on state television.
Both sides reported deep differences concerning Czechoslovakia's future constitutional setup but did not rule out referendums later this year in which Czechs and Slovaks would vote on whether to stay together.
Before that, however, Meciar, whose party won Saturday elections in Slovakia, plans to declare Slovak sovereignty — one step short of independence — and adopt a separate Slovak constitution.
Klaus, the conservative federal finance minister whose party led the voting in the more populous Czech regions, was tapped by President Vacach Havel to open talks on a new federal government. He briefed Vacach Havel yesterday on his meeting with Meciar in Brno.
Havel said afterward that the situa
tion was very serious. "A lot will depend on events in the month of June," he said.
Meciar's representative in Slovakia said that there were radical differences with Klaus' party on how the federation should be structured.
Klaus agreed. "The talks revealed deep and fundamental differences," he said.
Klaus, a supporter of a strong Czech-Slovak federation, has been the driving force behind rapid economic reform that has caused hardship in less-developed Slovakia. Meciar has demanded more control over economic changes in his region, where the jobless rate has soared to more than 11 percent, four times that of the Czech areas.
Jiri Schneider, Klaus' representative, said the Slovaks sought only a loose economic and defense union, which was not enough for Klaus.
"It's under the limit of what we call a common state," Schneider said.
Klaus also wants a federation with a united budget, customs and tax policies, Schneider said.
In his statement, Meciar said Klaus accepted the idea of a referendum in the Czech lands. "The referendum will be initiated by both sides", the statement said.
Klaus said that he could give no
details about the Czech referendum but that the questions posed to the 10.5 million Czechs and 5 million Slovaks should be identical.
Meciar's Movement for a Democratic Slovakia won about 38 percent of the vote for the regional Slovak parliament. Meciar said Sunday that the body could declare sovereignty soon after it met June 23 and that a referendum concerning the end of the federation should take place by year's end.
The outcome of the Klaus-Meciar talks indicated a bleak feature for Havel, whose representative said Monday that Havel would not seek reelection by the new federal parliament if the breakup of Czechoslovakia appeared inevitable.
The representative, Michael Zantovsky, told reporters that Havel's candidacy depended on the continuation of a common state and economic and political reforms begun with the 1989 Velvet Revolution that unseated the Communists.
Klaus said he insisted to Meciar that Havel be re-elected president, but Meciar's statement said Havel was unacceptable.
Meciar was ousted as Slovak pre-
mier in May 1991 by Havel allies.
Czechoslovakia was formed in 1918 from parts of the Austro-Hungarian empire.
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