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(Győr, 6/2/1917 - Budapest, 6/2/1989)
President - Hungarian Chamber of Commerce (1959-1981)Co-President - Hungarian Chamber of Commerce (1981-1987)
During his presidency the Chamber trasformed from the closed club of foreign trade enterprises to an open business federation, which promoted actively Hungarian exports. He personally initiated the series of Hungarian Economic Days abroad, he supported the expansion of East-West trade. The Chamber built close cooperation with the GATT, the UNIDO and the UNCTAD.
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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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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. |
