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Oct. 25, 1989
Title: Hungary
Draft: Two
PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION: HUNGARY, ROSE GARDEN
Thursday, Oct. 26, 1989, 10 a.m.
( (Acknowledgements to come -- Secretary Baker, Lawrence
Eagleburger, Congressman Lantos, Hungarian ambassador, etc.) )
( (Let me begin with a small confession. When I visited
Hungary in July, I made a reference to that famous brainteaser
from Budapest, the Rubik's Cube, only I called it a Rubik's
Cone. But I don't feel bad about it.\\ After all, I wound up
puzzling more people than Mister Rubik himself. ))
It was my privilege to return to Hungary last summer, and
become the first American President to visit a nation that is so
much a part of Europe, and so much a part of America.
At Karl Marx University, before the very statute of Marx
himself, I met students, teachers and entrepreneurs who are
making a bold break with the past. And in their bright faces I
saw a burning idealism, a determination to escape the dead hand
of ideology, forever.
I promised to support their hopes, by supporting the process
of economic and democratic reform in Hungary. I promised to ask
Congress to authorize $25 million to establish an Hungarian-
American Enterprise Fund, and I submitted this proposal to
Congress in September.
2
I promised a $5 million fund to open an environmental center
for Central and Eastern Europe in Budapest, so that East and West
can cooperate on our shared natural heritage; and I also
submitted this proposal to Congress in September.
I promised to stimulate American business investment in
Hungary by extending the business insurance of the Overseas
Investment Corporation to Hungary. Ambassador Fred Zeder,
President and CEO of OPIC, led a delegation to Hungary two weeks
ago to plan for operations to begin once the corporation receives
enabling legislation from the Senate.
I promised $6 million for cultural and educational exchange
programs. This program is also ready for action by Congress.
I promised to bring Radio Free Europe to Hungary. And on
September 9, Radio Free Europe opened its first station in
Eastern Europe in Budapest.
I also promised to instruct the Peace Corps to make its
first European mission to Hungary, to teach English in every
county of that nation. Peace Corps Director Paul Coverdall
recently led a delegation to Hungary to plan this mission. I
have also dispatched Commerce Secretary Bob Mosbacher, EPA
Director William Reilly, USIA Director Bruce Gelb and others to
Hungary to discover ways our government can support reform.
But the promises I made to the Hungarian people really
reflect one overarching commitment: America is ready to invest in
a partnership with the world's newest republic; a partnership to
build a common future of freedom and prosperity.
3
Nowhere is this commitment more evident than in today's
ceremony. For today we mark the fulfillment of yet another
pledge I made to the people of Hungary. I promised that as soon
as the Hungarian Parliament liberalized its emigration laws, I
would notify Congress that Hungary meets all the requirements of
U.S. law to qualify for permanent Most Favored Nation treatment.
On September 26, Hungary fulfilled its part of the bargain.
I am here to fulfill ours. In a few moments, I will sign two
documents -- advising the Secretary of State and Congress that
Hungary meets our emigration criteria. With my signature, these
documents will grant Hungary the most liberal trade treatment
under U.S. law, and make it the first country ever to be granted
a waiver from annual reviews of its emigration practices.
Hungary is already starting to enjoy tangible results of our
commitment to support reform. In September, an American
corporation purchased 100 percent of an Hungarian trading firm --
the first such total acquisition in Eastern European history.
( (Another example to come. ) )
But today's action represents something far greater than a
mere trade agreement. It signals the recognition that a quiet
revolution is taking place in thousands of shops, farms and
factories. It signals the rebirth of Hungary as an
entrepreneurial nation.
Our measure will, of course, grant these new Hungarian
entrepreneurs access to the largest single market in the world.
But the peoples of America and Hungary are exchanging more than
4
just blue jeans and fine wine. We are exchanging ideas and
ideals that can only be the shared province of free peoples.
Just last week, on the anniversary of the 1956 Revolution,
Hungary scrapped the title "People's Republic" -- that epitaph of
democracy common to one-party states -- and proclaimed itself to
be a true republic. It is this new Hungarian Republic that has
adopted a Bill of Rights to guarantee freedom of the press,
assembly and religion. Americans watch these acts of national
courage with wonder and admiration and something more -- a
willingness to help.
Just as we are helping the people of Hungary today, so we
are determined to assist wherever people aspire to greater
freedom. In Poland, the new Solidarity-led government has put
forward a bold program of economic reform. They have asked for
our support, and they will get it -- starting with this
Administration's commitment to provide a grant worth $200 million
as our contribution to the Polish request for a $1 billion
stabilization grant from the West. ((And on Monday, I will
announce a U.S. mission to Warsaw of officials, businessmen and
economic experts to determine how this fund can best serve the
cause of reform. ))
We are not passive observers, but active supports of reform.
For we know that we are privileged to participate in a very
special moment in human history. Never before have repressive,
centralized, regimes attempted the transformation into
pluralistic democracies with market economies. In Budapest, a
5
boy waves the flag of his nation -- with the hammer and sickle
removed. Remarkable. In Warsaw, a dissident who once languished
in a dungeon now presides over Parliament. Incredible. In East
Germany, thousands of courageous men and women march arm-in-arm
through the streets of Leipzig to make a peaceful stand for
freedom. Inspiring. It is in these amazing scenes that we see a
portrait of the indomitable spirit of Man.
Throughout Eastern Europe and in the Soviet Union itself, we
see evidence of the ascendancy of freedom. We see signs of a new
Europe, which no one need fear, a Europe whole and free. And as
we witness this historic tide of freedom, riding at the crest is
one nation -- the people of Republic of Hungary. To them I say:
We admire you. We support you. And we welcome you as friends of
freedom.
Thank you, and now it will be my pleasure to sign these two
documents to grant Hungary Most Favored Nation status.
-1A-
IT IS A PLEASURE TO HAVE SO MANY MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
HERE WITH US TODAY.
SEN. PELL
SEN. MOYNIHAN
REP. ROSTENKOWSKI
REP. AND MRS. LANTOS
REP. GIBBONS
REP. BROOMFIELD
REP. GILMAN
REP. Cox
REP. GINGRICH
REP. FRENZEL
Davis/Martin
Oct. 25, 1989
Title: Hungary
Draft: Two
PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION: HUNGARY, ROSE GARDEN
Thursday, Oct. 26, 1989, 10 a.m.
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( (Let me begin with a small confession. When I visited
Hungary in July, I made a reference to that famous brainteaser
from Budapest, the Rubik's Cube, \\ only I called it a Rubik's
Cone. \\ But I don't feel bad about it. After all, I wound up
puzzling more people than Mister Rubik himself. ))
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It was my privilege to return to Hungary last summer, and
become the first American President to visit a nation that is so
much a part of Europe, and so much a part of America.
At Karl Marx University, before the very statute of Marx
himself, I met students, teachers and entrepreneurs who are
making a bold break with the past. And in their bright faces I
saw a burning idealism, a determination to escape the dead hand
of ideology, forever.
I promised to support their hopes, by supporting the process
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can cooperate on our shared natural heritage; and I also
submitted this proposal to Congress in September.
I promised to stimulate American business investment in
Hungary by extending the business insurance of the Overseas
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Investment Corporation to Hungary. Ambassador Fred Zeder,
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President and CEO of OPIC, led a delegation to Hungary two weeks
ago to plan for operations to begin once the corporation receives
enabling legislation from the Senate.
I promised $6 million for cultural and educational exchange
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Director William Reilly, USIA Director Bruce Gelb and others to
Hungary to discover ways our government can support reform.
But the promises I made to the Hungarian people really
reflect one overarching commitment: America is ready to invest in
a partnership with the world's newest republic; a partnership to
build a common future of freedom and prosperity.
3
Nowhere is this commitment more evident than in today's
ceremony. For today we mark the fulfillment of yet another
pledge I made to the people of Hungary. I promised that as soon
as the Hungarian Parliament liberalized its emigration laws, I
would notify Congress that Hungary meets all the requirements of
U.S. law to qualify for permanent Most Favored Nation treatment.
On September 26, Hungary fulfilled its part of the bargain.
I am here to fulfill ours. In a few moments, I will sign two
documents -- advising the Secretary of State and Congress that
Hungary meets our emigration criteria. With my signature, these
documents will grant Hungary the most liberal trade treatment
under U.S. law, and make it the first country ever to be granted
a waiver from annual reviews of its emigration practices.
Hungary is already starting to enjoy tangible results of our
commitment to support reform. In September, an American
corporation purchased 100 percent of an Hungarian trading firm --
the first such total acquisition in Eastern European history.
((Another example to come.)) Guardian -Jt venture
But today's action represents something far greater than a
mere trade agreement. It signals the recognition that a quiet
revolution is taking place in thousands of shops, farms and
factories. It signals the rebirth of Hungary as an
entrepreneurial nation.
Our measure will, of course, grant these new Hungarian
entrepreneurs access to the largest single market in the world.
But the peoples of America and Hungary are exchanging more than
4
just blue jeans and fine wine. We are exchanging ideas and
ideals that can only be the shared province of free peoples.
Just last week, on the anniversary of the 1956 Revolution,
Hungary scrapped the title "People's Republic" --- that epitaph of
democracy common to one-party states -- and proclaimed itself to
be a true republic. It is this new Hungarian Republic that has
adopted a Bill of Rights to guarantee freedom of the press,
assembly and religion. Americans watch these acts of national
courage with wonder and admiration and something more -- a
willingness to help.
Just as we are helping the people of Hungary today, so we
are determined to assist wherever people aspire to greater
freedom. In Poland, the new Solidarity-led government has put
forward a bold program of economic reform. They have asked for
our support, and they will get it -- starting with this
Administration's commitment to provide a grant worth $200 million
as our contribution to the Polish request for a $1 billion
stabilization grant from the West.
( (And on Monday, I will
announce a U.S. mission to Warsaw of officials, businessmen and
economic experts to determine how this fund can best serve the
cause of reform. ) )
We are not passive observers, but active supports of reform.
For we know that we are privileged to participate in a very
special moment in human history. Never before have repressive,
centralized, regimes attempted the transformation into
pluralistic democracies with market economies. In Budapest, a
Tadeusz mazowiecki - Prive minister
5
no symbols on flag
waves the flag of his nation -- with the hammer and sickle
NSC removed.
Remarkable. In Warsaw, a dissident who once languished
in a dungeon now presides over Parliament. Incredible. In East
Germany, thousands of courageous men and women march arm-in-arm
through the streets of Leipzig to make a peaceful stand for
freedom. Inspiring. It is in these amazing scenes that we see a
portrait of the indomitable spirit of Man.
Throughout Eastern Europe and in the Soviet Union itself, we
see evidence of the ascendancy of freedom. We see signs of a new
Europe, which no one need fear, a Europe whole and free. And as
we witness this historic tide of freedom, riding at the crest is
one nation -- the people of Republic of Hungary. To them I say:
We admire you. We support you. And we welcome you as friends of
freedom.
Thank you, and now it will be my pleasure to sign these two
documents to grant Hungary Most Favored Nation status.
- Rose Garden 10:00 Am (450 EOB-RAIN)
220 people invited - all us citizens
from communist countries
-
celebrated every yr. since 1959
- This is 30th Anniu.
-
initially set up by congress to honor
citizens of E. European nation now applies
to People all over the united world.
-
8 min. speech should be forward -Looking,
no soulet bashing, discuss an writed.
free Europe, forces pulling out of Cambodica,
peaceful accord in Angola, people of
Cuba, NIC
, , Ethiopia , etc.
- From discussion w/cw - talk about
how reform does not happen suddenly,
"take your time + do it right (safely)"
- There may be 7 people standing with
the Pres. They would be famous citizens
from captive nations - - moule stars,
rock stars, sports heros, etc. Yet to
be approved.
-
Talk to Sichan, he was a guest last
yr. + is extremely up -to, date on
positive movements w/in captive
countries
- Cuba 5wks ago
rejection of E. European approach
continue restrictions
- NIC
they have the opportunity
little willingness
I laws fall short for free 1 open election
confirmed when VP visited
restrict + kick out Diplonats +
electoral obs.
no dialogues w/ oppisition
no marches