The Hungarian Minister of Youth, Family, Social Affairs and Equal
Opportunities, Kinga Göncz, visited the United States between February 27
and March 1. In New York, she took part at the Fiftieth Session of the U.N.
Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).
In Washington, DC, Minister Göncz participated
in the Board Meeting of
the Partners for Democratic Change (the Minister is the former Executive
Director of the Partners' Hungarian organization). Göncz met with Wade F. Horn,
Assistant Secretary for Children and Families at the Department of Health
and Human Services.
The Minister also had a meeting with Congressman Tom Lantos,
Ranking Member of the House International Relations Committee and
Co-Chairman of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus. Many fields of close
cooperation were discussed during the discussion between Minister Göncz and
Jim DeCaro, Professor at the Technical Institute for the Deaf in Rochester (TIDR).
On a recent visit by Hungarian experts to Rochester, an agreement had been reached on the cooperation between Hungarian institutions for the deaf and
TIDR.
At a dinner hosted by Ambassador Simonyi in the Minister's
honor, Kinga Göncz met, among others, with William
Pollard, President of the University of the District of Columbia, Charles
Gati, a Hungarian-born Senior Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University,
and Charles G.Curie, the Administrator for the Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration.
On March 1, the Minister visited the Frost
School of Autism and later met with the representatives of the Hungarian
press.
Minister Kinga Göncz is the daughter of Árpád Göncz,
the President of the Republic of
Hungary from 1990 to 2000.
Mrs. Náda P. Simonyi, Charles G.Curie, Minister Kinga Göncz, Mrs. and
Mr. William Pollard, Ambassador Simonyi
Bob Shell, Minister Kinga Göncz, Ildikó Strehli, Ambassador
Simonyi
