December 2, 2009 - Wednesday

 

Hungarian PM Gordon Bajnai attended the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on U.S. Afghanistan strategy

 

PM Bajnai met Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of International Monetary Fund, followed by a press event in the IMF.

http://videopoint.reuters.com/

 

PM Bajnai participated at a dinner in his honor at the residence of the Hungarian Ambassador with representatives of the administration and academia, and presented a State Decoration to Mark Palmer, former US Ambassador to Hungary.

 

 

December 3, 2009 - Thursday

 

PM Bajnai met former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and later that day former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft.

                  

The PM attended a lunch with a group of investors.

 

Hungarian PM Bajnai met Senator Richard G. Lugar, Ranking Minority Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and decorated him with the “Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary. http://lugar.senate.gov/

 

He gave a lecture in the US Chamber of Commerce, entitled “Economic Policies In Post-Lisbon EU - The Perspective from Hungary”

 

PM Bajnai met Senator Benjamin L. Cardin, Chairman of the Congressional Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission)     http://csce.gov/

 

PM Bajnai attended a roundtable discussion at the Council on Foreign Relations. The topic: Europe and the evolution of transatlantic relations - a Central European view.

 

 

December 4, 2009 - Friday

 

Hungarian PM Bajnai met Congressional members of the Hungarian Caucus chaired by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio)

 

PM Bajnai met Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Peter R. Orszag, director of Office of Management and Budget in the White House. PM and VPOTUS made a press spray after the meeting. http://thepage.time.com/pool-reports-biden-and-bajnai/

 

The PM met Ms. Anette Lantos and Ms. Katrina Lantos Swett during lunch at the Capitol, and presented both of them with high State Decoration near the statue of Lajos Kossuth, hero of the 1848-49 Hungarian revolution, in the Capitol building.

 

PM Bajnai met Timothy F. Geithner, Secretary of Treasury in the Department of Treasury

 

PM Gordon Bajnai met General James L. Jones, National Security Adviser in the White House.

 

PM Bajnai met former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski of CSIS.

 

The PM attended a reception and dinner organized by the Hungarian American Coalition, hosted at the Embassy of Hungary where he met leaders of the Coalition and guests including Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Janos Martonyi.

 

 

December 5, 2009 - Saturday

 

Hungarian PM Gordon Bajnai attended the Changing of the Guard at Arlington National Cemetery, and laid wreaths at the Memorial to the Unknown Soldier as well as the tomb of Julius Stahel and Alexander Sandor Asboth, Hungarian-born generals of the Civil War.