Hungary
EUROPEAN leaders gathered in Budapest yesterday to mark the 20th anniversary of the symbolic fall of the Iron Curtain.
On 27 June, 1989, the then foreign ministers of Hungary, Gyula Horn, and Austria, Alois Mock, cut through some barbed wire on the border between the two countries, putting a symbolic end to a physical and psychological boundary.
"Looking at the entire chain of events, we rightfully and deservedly celebrate 27 June as the day in which the partitioning of Europe came to an end," Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom, above, said at the start of a special session in parliament.
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