Deputy Prime Minister responsible for national policy and church affairs Zsolt Semjén is currently on a visit to Moscow.

In the Russian capital, the political victims of communism are being commemorated at this time, while for Christians in the west it is the time to remember the dead. On Wednesday, in this spirit, Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén, Hungarian Ambassador to Moscow István Íjgyártó and Ministerial Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ernő Keskeny laid a wreath at the memorial to the incarceration and death of former Hungarian Prime Minister István Bethlen, in the company of several other Hungarians currently in Moscow.

Zsolt Semjén is holding official talks in Moscow with leaders of the Pravoslav Church in preparation for the agreement that will be signed in Budapest in November between the Hungary and the Hungarian Russian Orthodox Church.

Bertalan Havasi,
Prime Minister's Press Chief

(Press Office of the Prime Minister's Office)