Mr. John Devitt:

Largely because the nature of the conversation would be partly qualified by legal privilege, I thought it was important for us to set the context of our conservation with the committee and to help it in addressing some of the concerns we have raised.

It takes time for any democracy to meet universal standards expected of it by the international community. Hungary has signed up to UN and EU instruments. It has fundamental law and a constitution, under which it guarantees freedom of speech and assembly. We do not believe, however, that it is respecting its own commitment to meet these standards. Just because it is a relatively new democracy does not mean that it is not obliged to meet the standards to which it has signed up and which it promised its own electorate it would live by. No country is a model of perfection, as we know through our own painful history. We will continue to find imperfections in our systems, but that does not mean that we should not highlight and address them.

I will leave it up to Mr. Ligeti to address some of the more detailed questions.