Hungarian defence minister says military reforms "dogged by fiascos".

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

[Announcer] Military reform is dogged by fiascos, internal political conflicts and absurd solutions, Defence Minister Ferenc Juhasz told his colleagues. Mark Kocsis reports;

[Kocsis] In the past eight years in Hungary every military reform attempt failed just when really important decision should have been made. Barracks should have been closed down, people should have been sacked, that is, when modernizing defence, the Defence Ministry was abandoned and it was not protected by an overall political will against the interests of lobbies, Ferenc Juhasz told military leaders from the Czech Republic, Poland and other …