Item COLD WAR 14/9 - Transcript of interview with Prime Minister Miklos Nemeth, 1997

Typescript transcript of interview with Miklós Németh, Secretary, Hungarian Socialist Workers Party, 1987-[1989], and Prime Minister of Hungary, [1989], relating to economic and political reforms in Hungary, 1988-1989; the liberalisation of the Hungarian economy and the introduction of democracy, 1989; the influence in Hungary of the reformist policies of Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, 1985-1991; a meeting between Németh and Gorbachev, Moscow, USSR, Mar 1989; the reburial of Imre Nagy, Hungarian Prime Minister, 1953-1955 and 1956, Budapest, Hungary, Jun 1989; the death of Nagy, 18 Jun 1958, while in custody following the Hungarian revolution, Oct-Nov 1956; the Soviet intervention in Hungary, 1956; the visit to Hungary by US President George Herbert Walker Bush and James Addison Baker III, US Secretary of State, Jul 1989; the reopening of the borders between Hungary and Austria, 2 May 1989; the reaction in the German Democratic Republic to the reopening of the border between Hungary and Austria, May 1989; the meeting between Németh and Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, and Hans-Dietrich Genscher, West German Foreign Minister, 25 Aug 1989; the support given to Hungary by the Federal Republic of Germany the programme of economic and political reforms, 1989; criticisms of the Hungarian economic and liberal reforms by Erich Honecker, First Secretary of the East German Socialist Unity Party, and Nicolae Ceausescu, President of the Romanian Socialist Republic, Warsaw Pact summit, Bucharest, Romania, Jul 1989; speculation on the survival of socialism in Hungary following the economic and political reforms, 1989; Gorbachev's reaction to German reunification, Dec 1989. 24pp