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(Kecskemét, 5/12/1941)
Desk officer, later Director - Ministry of Foreign Trade (1969-1982)Counsellor in charge of the EEC at the Hungarian Embassy in Brussels (1982-1987)
Responsible for international economic organisations - Prime Ministers Office (1987-1988)
As a diplomat in Brussels, he represented the official Hungarian standpoint, participated several meetings to coordinate the viewpoint of socialist states. However, he built good unofficial relations with the EEC apparatus in Brussels.
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Since the early 1950s he was a Hungarian representative in several international organizations and meetings, he managed the talks with the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. However, during the 1980s he rigidly opposed concluding a genera... |
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In the ministry he was responsible for the inter-bloc relations. He represented his ministry during the inter-ministerial negotiations concerning the EEC and CMEA talks. |
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As a commercial secretary in Brussels he participated the debates of the Socialist embassies, later in Budapest, at the Ministry of Foreign Trade he was the member of the coordination board dealing with the EEC agricultural embargo after the C... |
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A leading expert of Western economies and the EEC in the Ministry of Foreign Trade. |
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As a worker origin trade apparatchik he always followed the official political line, as a foreign trade minister he carefuly supported the New Economic Mechanism, but also served after the fall of the reform. |
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He, as foreign trade minister, had several meetings with EEC representatives. However, he insisted on concluding an agreement with the EEC solely in accordance with the GATT regulation. |
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Since the late 1960s he urged informal Hungary–EEC bilateral talks and to analyse more intensively the Western integration. |
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A letter to Péter Balázs commercial councillor: Answer to Vice President Haferkamp
MNL OL XIX-A-2-af 187. d. | 185/Ap
The ministry ordered its commercial councillor to inform Haferkamp on the Hungarian standpoint in a "non paper paper". This “non paper” claimed that a desirable agreement should resulted in a substantial improvement in export conditions for Hungarian goods. - Available here. |
