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FEDERATION LEADERS MEET WITH WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL

American Hungarian Federation Leaders meet with Adam Sterling, the newly appointed Director of Central and Eastern European Affairs of the National Security Council.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.

American Hungarian Federation Leaders meet with Adam Sterling, the newly appointed Director of Central and Eastern European Affairs of the National Security Council.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." Read more [about us] or

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