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(Püspökladány, 11/11/1933)
Deputy Head - Department for Foreign Affairs in the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (1974-1975)Ambassador of Hungary in (East-)Berlin (1975-1978)
Ambassador of Hungary in Moscow (1978-1982)
Head of the World Economy Department - Department for Foreign Affairs in the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (1982-1983)
Foreign Affairs Secretary - Central Committee of the Hungarian Workers' Party (1983-1989)
As one of the Central Committee secretaries he was responsible for the foreign policy of the state party. He supported to manage a rapprochement with the EEC.
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As a conservative Communist politician actively supported the censorship in the Public Relations Office. As a minister he intended to avoid any risky action in foreign policy. |
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Since his vice presidency he was the permanent representative of Hungary in the CMEA, he supervised the talks with the EEC and managed an active economic policy with the Western countries. He did not support to conclude a general trade agreeme... |
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As the supervisor of the economic policy was involved in the negotiations with the EEC, he urged and promoted the new wave of economic reforms during the 1980s. |
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One of the leading figures of the younger reformist wing of the party. Since 1982-83 he wished and urged a rapprochement with the EEC. In 1987-88 he was the member of the Committee for International Economic Relations, when the agreement betwe... |
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One of the young reformist inside the party apparatus. As ambassador in Bonn, he intensified the Hungarian–West-German relations, he urged and promoted to conclude a general, political agreement with the EEC. |
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The Eighties and Hungarian Foreign Policy
MNL OL M-KS 288. f. 32/b cs. 105. ő. e. 66-87. | 10/83
The document highlighted new opportunities for Hungarian foreign policy. It supposed that Budapest would have real a chance to prepare a proper framework agreement with the EEC. Moreover, it stated that Hungarian foreign policy could prepare the ground for Hungary’s accession to EFTA. - Available here. |
