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AHF Congratulates Nicholas Sarkozy on his election as French Prime Minister |
May 8, 2007 The Honorable Nicholas Sarkozy Dear President-Elect Sarkozy: On behalf of the American Hungarian Federation and the Hungarian-American community we represent, we write to congratulate you on your election to President of France. I, like many of our members, am a child of Hungarians that were forced to flee their homeland and start a new life. Successive conflicts brought hundreds of thousands and their enormous talents to distant shores. Your election to the highest levels of world politics is a source of pride for all of us and a testament to what Hungarians can accomplish in a free, democratic society. It reminds us of the great contributions of our people across the globe. The American Hungarian Federation, founded in 1906, is the oldest and largest Hungarian-American umbrella organization in the United States. It was established to "defend the interest of Americans of Hungarian origin in the United States." Over the past 100 years, AHF's mission has broadened to include support of people of Hungarian descent on both sides of the Atlantic and in the successor states of the Carpathian Basin. AHF has been instrumental in bringing attention to the tragedy at Trianon and to the historic Hungarian communities in the Carpathian Basin, bringing relief to the needy in post WWII Hungary, and assisting refugees in 1956. AHF continues to work to educate the public and the U.S. government on issues important to our community and act as a watchdog on threats to human rights and democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. Once again, please accept our heartfelt congratulations! Sincerely, Bryan Dawson-Szilagyi |
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The French leader said Hungary was a "special country" for him because he is the son of a Hungarian immigrant. Sarkozy's father Pal left Hungary after World War II. "I do not forget that this the birthplace of my father. And after all, it's not everyday that there is a president of the republic who is half-Hungarian." [read more] on AFP.
Ami az európai színteret illeti, Magyarországnak elsorendu szerep jut. Az, hogy Budapest az elso olyan fováros, amelyet meglátogatok azon utak sorában, amelyeket Európában teszek a francia EU-elnökség elokészítése érdekében, jól szemlélteti a fontosságot, amelyet Magyarországnak tulajdonítok. Ez tágabb értelemben Közép-Európának szánt jelzés is, amelynek célja az elmúlt években esetleg felmerülo félreértések eloszlatása. Amit ma javasolni szeretnék a magyaroknak: folytassuk közös akciónkat Európában. Gondolok például az energia területére, ahol Magyarország központi szerepet kíván játszani és stratégiai helyet kialakítani. Gondolok továbbá a bevándorlásra: e téren Európának valódi politikával kell rendelkeznie. Végül gondolok az európai biztonsági és védelmi politikára, amelyet tovább kell fejleszteni, természetesen anélkül, hogy konkurenciát jelentene a NATO-nak." [Tovább - Népszabadság] About Nicholas Sarkozy Nicolas Sarkozy is the son of a Hungarian immigrant father, Pál Sárközy de Nagy-Bócsa and a mother of French and Ottoman Sephardic Jewish descent Andrée Mallah. Pál Sárközy was born in 1928 in Budapest into a family belonging to the lower nobility of Hungary. The family possessed lands and a small castle in the village of Alattyán, near Szolnok, 92 km (57 miles) east of Budapest. Pál Sárközy's father and grandfather held elective offices in the town of Szolnok. Although the Sárközy de Nagy-Bócsa (nagybócsai Sárközy) family was Protestant, Pál Sárközy's mother, Katalin Tóth de Csáford (Hungarian: csáfordi Tóth Katalin), grandmother of Nicolas Sarkozy, was from a Catholic aristocratic family. As the Red Army entered Hungary in 1944, the Sárközy family fled to Germany[6]. They returned in 1945 but all their possessions had been seized. [Read More on about Sarkozy on Wikipedia]
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