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CzechRep should not ignore National Guard - Slovak president

22 October 2012
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The Czech Republic should react to the National Guard para-military unit that the extreme right National Party established in Prague in late October, Slovak President Ivan Gasparovic said in a radio interview today.

"The Czech Republic must not ignore that something like that is being established," Gasparovic said, adding that similar groupings can encourage extremists in Slovakia.
The National Party that openly stands up against foreigners and the EU set up the guard at a demonstration on October 28, on the occasion of the anniversary of Czechoslovakia’s establishment in 1918.

The party representatives say the guard should serve during rallies and assist in the case of disasters.

Gasparovic today also repeatedly criticised the extremist Hungarian Guard, saying that its existence threatens the whole world.

Gasparovic recalled that before the elections, the Slovak authorities had banned the extremist Slovak Community-National Party whose members demonstrated in uniforms reminding of the Hlinka guards from the times of the wartime fascist Slovak State.

Gasparovic previously condemned the establishment of the para-military Hungarian Guards by the Hungarian extra-parliamentary nationalist movements Jobbik.

"To revive this guard like the Hungarian party is trying to do is dangerous not only for Slovakia and Europe, but it is dangerous for the whole world," Gasparovic stressed today.

Some 500,000 ethnic Hungarians live in the five-million Slovakia.

The establishment of the Hungarian Guard has provoked protests in the neighbouring countries with ethnic Hungarian minorities and fears of the Jewish community in Hungary.

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