Deputy State Secretary Gergely Prőhle arrived in Washington on April 15, 2012. The purpose of his visit is to continue bilateral talks with his American counterparts in the State Department.

He will be meeting, among others, Tomicah Tillemann, Senior Advisor for Civil Society and Emerging Democracies to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Mr. Tillemann is the grandson of the late Congressman Tom Lantos who is widely respected in Hungary. Mr. Prőhle will also be laying a wreath at the Raoul Wallenberg bust on Capitol Hill. The Hungarian Government, to commemorate 100th anniversary of the birth of the renowned Swedish humanitarian rescuer, has declared 2012 as Wallenberg Year.

Deputy State Secretary Gergely Prőhle held a lecture about the democratic transformation of Hungary at a conference entitled The New Europe, hosted by Yale University, on the first day of his official visit.

(kormany.hu)