Hungarian President Ferenc Madl arrived to Slovenia on Tuesday for a two-day official visit which was dominated by bilateral relations and minority issues. Madl held talks with his Slovenian counterpart Janez Drnovsek, Prime Minister Janez Jansa, Speaker of Parliament France Cukjati, and representatives of the Hungarian minority. The two sides agreed that the bilateral commission overseeing the agreement that grants special rights to the ethic minority living in the other country would meet in May. The agreement signed in 1992 on the special rights of the Slovenian minority in Hungary and the Hungarian minority in Slovenia stipulates that the standing commission should meet quarterly, but it has not met for two years. Madl said that short-term measures related to the funding of the Slovenian ethnic minority would be taken shortly. --SP 1825 Local Time 1525 GMT
