Most-Hid - one of the political parties representing ethnic Hungarians in Slovakia said on Wednesday that if it succeeds in the June's parliamentary elections it will seek equal rights between indigenous ethnic minorities - including Hungarians, the Roma, Ruthenians - and the majority Slovak population.

"The objective is to adopt a universal ban on the assimilation of ethnic minorities," Most-Hid presidium-member Laszlo Nagy told reporters bemoaning a lack of minority rights in Slovakia.

All legal measures currently governing minority rights in the country have been adopted at the instigation of international organisations said Nagy.

The aforesaid assimilation ban which was in operation in the former Czechoslovakia governing relations between Czechs and Slovaks after 1968, would be included in an Act on the Status of Ethnic Minorities that Most-Hid will submit to Parliament in the event of electoral success.

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