As part of her ten-day tour in South America, Deputy Minister of State for Hungarian Communities Abroad Zsuzsanna Répás has met members of the Hungarian community in Latin America and has attended Hungarians’ events in commemoration of the 1956 Revolution and Freedom Fight.
On Thursday, at the invitation of Hungarian organisations there, Zsuzsanna Répás started a South American tour which will take her to several states.
On 19 October, the first day of the tour, Mrs. Répás gave a speech at the monument to the 1956 Revolution in Plaza San Esteban, Santiago de Chile, and later laid a wreath at the memorial to Cardinal József Mindszenty. During her short visit, she was received by Camilo Escalona, the President of the Chilean Senate, and she met leaders and members of the Hungarian Cultural Association in Chile in the temporarily closed embassy building. Opportunities for further development of links were the subject of informal discussion.
The Deputy Minister of State continued her trip in Uruguay where, at a commemoration in the 60-year-old Hungarian Home in Montevideo, she encouraged the Hungarian community in Uruguay to strengthen their roots and preserve their traditions. She said that geographical distance should not be an obstacle to the maintenance of regular links and visits, and she paid her respects to the heroes of the Revolution at the 1956 monument in the city.
On 21 October Mrs. Répás gave a commemorative speech at the Hungarian community’s event in Buenos Aires, and took part in an oath of citizenship ceremony at the Hungarian embassy there. In the course of the day she visited the Calvinist and Lutheran communities, the Szent László School, the library at the Hungarian House and met leaders of Hungarian organisations in the capital. The next stop on her tour was to visit the Hungarian community in North-West Argentina.
On 23 October the Deputy Minister of State travelled to Paraguay, and on 25 October she travels to Brazil, where on 27 October she will attend an event in commemoration of 1956 in São Paolo, and a citizenship oath ceremony there.
(Ministry of Public Administration and Justice)
