11/16/2006
- On November 16 members of the American Hungarian Federation's
leadership, including its President, Istvan Fedor, and several members
of the Federation's Executive Committee, Zoltan Bagdy, Bryan Dawson, Atilla
Kocsis, and Frank Koszorus, Jr., met with Adam Sterling, the newly appointed
Director of Central and Eastern European Affairs of the National Security
Council. The meeting took place in the Executive Office of the White House.
The
purpose of the meeting was to introduce the Federation's leadership to
Mr. Sterling and to continue the dialogue the Federation maintained with
the White House in the past. The group briefly outlined the 100 year-old
history and mission of the Federation, including its interest in issues
relating to Hungary, Hungarians and American-Hungarians. These include
recent events in Hungary; minority rights issues, such as the difficulties
with property rights procedures in Romania; and rising nationalist sentiments,
reflected by the recent elections in Slovakia. The group stressed that
the Federation focuses on its broad-based American membership.
Mr. Sterling outlined the scope of his position and his previous involvement
in East and Central European affairs. He touched on a number of currently
significant issues and asked the Federation's representatives to share
their views with him.
At the conclusion of the meeting, the Federation presented Mr. Sterling
with a book, Hungary: The Unwilling Satellite, by John F. Montgomery,
as well as AHF's mini-documentary on the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and
"Poznan to Budapest" a stirring film produced by the Polish
government recalling the events in Poland and Hungary in 1956.
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The American Hungarian Federation (AHF), a non-profit 501(c)(3)
organization, was founded in 1906 in Cleveland, Ohio. The largest Hungarian-American
umbrella organization in the United States, AHF is also among the oldest
ethnic organizations in the country. AHF was established as an association
of Hungarian societies, institutions and churches to "defend the
interest of Americans of Hungarian origin in the United States."
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