The US Congress has donated some $400,000 of of computer hardware, software and training packages to the Czech parliament as part of an aid programme initiated by Congressman Martin Frost in 1990. Much of the equipment has already been delivered to the parliament and is now being integrated into its existing information technology network. This particular aid programme had been suspended in the months leading up to the split of Czechoslovakia in January last year. Meanwhile, US Under Secretary for State Arms Control and International Security Affairs, Lynn Davis, is touring Bulgaria, Slovakia, Hungary and Macedonia, to discuss with local officials the development of export controls on high technology and the US adminstration’s continuing efforts to establish a successor regime to CoCom, abolished without successor in March.
