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Hungary Yugoslavia
In the late 1980s, approximately 430,000 Hungarians
lived in
Yugoslavia, primarily in the autonomous province of
Vojvodina. In
the late 1980s, relations between Hungary and Yugoslavia
were
good. After a December 1986 visit to Yugoslavia, Hungarian
prime
minister Gyorgy Lazar termed "exemplary" Yugoslavia's
treatment
of its Hungarian minority. Yugoslavia provided an adequate
number
of Hungarian-language schools on all educational levels to
this
minority. In addition, the Yugoslav government freely
permitted
the publication and dissemination of periodicals and
newspapers
in the Hungarian language.
In other areas, bilateral ties developed remarkably
well.
Since the 1970s, Hungary has maintained governmental
relations
with the various republics of Yugoslavia. The two
countries also
undertook a variety of successful economic and scientifictechnical ventures. In 1985 Hungary and Yugoslavia signed
a trade
agreement worth US$4.8 billion. In the late 1980s, each
side
expressed its readiness to increase cooperation in
culture,
education, information exchange, and sports.
Data as of September 1989
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