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Legislative process begins Sept 30

Czechs, Slovaks agree to split
BRATISLAVA. Czechoalo vakta. June 20: Czech and Slovak leaders agreed early Saturday to split Czechoslovakia into two states, ending a 74-year old federation of their two peoples, reports AP.
Emerging from day-long negotiations. Czech leader Va clav Klaus and Vladimir Me clar. his Slovak counterpart, told reporters the regional Caech and Slovak parliaments would decide on how best to dm de Czechoslovakia into two states.
The legislative process would begin in both parliaments September 30, they said
The Slovak side previously said it wanted a referendum on independence early next year, thus postponding the dissolution of the federation until the end of 1093.
Such demands arc unac
ceptablc to the wealthier, more numerous Czechs, who fear the crisis could delay integration with the West
Klaus, victor tn June 5-6 elections tn the Czech lands told reporters "a referendum is nol impossible but also not obligatory" in the envisaged parliamentary process of sepa ration
After talks Wednesday in Prague. both Klaus and Meciar. who won the elections In Sk> vakta. acknowledged their failure lo reach agreement that could save the federation of 16 million people, founded in
1918 from the ruins of tne Austro Hungarian empire.
The fact that we have dif ferent long-term goals is obvious. Klaus said then.
Experts from both sides spent Thursday working out details for a caretaker federal government to oversee the
Klaus said Saturday the fed eral government would be charged with creating condl tions for the transformation of Czechoslovakia into two sovereign states with Interna Uonal status.
He said the new federal
government that will rule until the split would have 10 mem bers Instead of the present 16. The present 13 ministries would be streamlined to only five — defense, finance. exterior. Interior and economics, he added
In de facto acknowledg ment of defeat In his bid to save the federation. Klaus on Wednesday accepted ihe nomination for the post of regional Czech premier He thus forfeited the opportunity to form a federal government as requested by President Vaclav Havel.
Klaus cited "lack of faith" In the emerging confederattve structure for his decision
Slovakia, the poorer eastern third of the federation, has been hit hardest by ambitious economic reforms, fathered by
separation Is likely lo be costly for both sides, but more so for the Slovaks Slovakia has so far received only a fraction of Western Investment in Czechoslovakia since the fell of communism in 1989
Joblessness, officially at nearly 12 per cent, is almost four times the rate in the Czech lands.