Embattled Hungarian president vows to stay on: TV

Reuters) - Hungarian President Pal Schmitt said on Friday there was no link between a plagiarism row that cost him his doctorate and his role as head of state, pledging to defend his honor by writing a new thesis. "These issues are not related in my view, even though many interpret it this way," the 69-year-old Schmitt said in a taped interview on television when asked whether he had considered resigning over the issue. Opposition parties say cheating makes him unworthy of the job. The main right-leaning daily Magyar Nemzet and influential conservative intellectuals have also called for him to quit. Schmitt was stripped of his doctorate on Thursday. (Reporting by Gergely Szakacs and Sandor Peto; Editing by Louise Ireland)