Hungary, NATO Grope Toward New Relationship

From: The Washington Post | Date: November 17, 1993| Author: David B. Ottaway; Peter Maass | Copyright information

Facing political turmoil on its southern border with Yugoslavia, Hungary has welcomed a U.S. offer of a "Partnership for Peace" with NATO but also expressed disappointment that the proposal falls far short of security guarantees it desperately seeks.

Hungary's concerns underscore an uncertain security situation in the former communist nations of Eastern Europe, which were left adrift by dissolution of the Soviet-imposed Warsaw Pact and have yet to find a new formula for security relat...

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