János Martonyi
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 May 2010
Preceded by	Péter Balázs
In office 8 July 1998 – 27 May 2002
Preceded by	László Kovács
Succeeded by	László Kovács
Personal details
Born	(1944-04-05) 5 April 1944 (age 68) Kolozsvár, Kingdom of Hungary
Political party	MSZMP, Fidesz
Profession	diplomat, lawyer, politician

János Martonyi (born in Kolozsvár, Hungary (today Cluj-Napoca, Romania), April 5, 1944) is a Hungarian politician and Foreign Minister of Hungary. He is a member of the Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union party, and was also Foreign Minister between 1998 and 2002. More recently he was part of the Amato Group that unofficially drafted a new treaty for the European Union after the European Constitution was rejected by the French and Dutch voters.

In April 2007, Hungarian journalist Péter Kende reported in a weekly newspaper that Martonyi delivered reports to the Hungarian secret police in the 1960s, and that secret police files confirmed this. According to the files, Martonyi wrote among other things reports on the Hungarian emigrant scene in Germany and France.^[1]

János Martonyi (right) with George W. Bush and Viktor Orbán in the White House.

On 29 May 2010 he was reappointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs. His most prominent tasks are the development of a strong and effective foreign policy, and planning for Hungarian Presidency of the European Union from January to July 2011. He visited Slovakia before his inauguration on the occasion of the passing of the Hungarian law allowing citizenship to be given to Hungarians living in neighboring countries. The Slovak government has considered the new law to be an aggressive move, with insufficient negotiation between the two countries. Martonyi said that hysteria in Slovakia is a result of the election campaign there.

Martonyi's foreign policy's motto is a quote from 17th century poet Miklós Zrínyi: "Don't hurt the Hungarian!"

His first visit abroad was to Serbia. Martonyi mentioned the improved relations between the two countries. He said that Hungary has to help Serbia join the European Union. Martonyi met Vuk Jeremić who said the Hungarian EU Presidency will be very important for the integration of the Western Balkan countries. The Hungarian foreign minister also met Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković and President Boris Tadić.

At the end of the Hungarian Presidency of the European Union he said "the past six months of Hungary’s EU presidency demonstrated that Europe was able to function and react to challenges, even if sometimes slowly and unevenly". Martonyi noted that several objectives of the EU presidency could be summed up under the heading of “integration”. This category, he said, included the issue of EU enlargement, the approval of the Roma framework strategy and the Danube Strategy as well as progress towards the admission of Romania and Bulgaria to the Schengen zone.^[2]

Martonyi is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

References[link]

1. ^ Eurotopics.net - Secret police scandal involving conservative politician János Martonyi
2. ^ Politics.hu - Foreign minister says Europe functioned well under Hungary’s presidency term

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Martonyi
—  Village  —
Country	Hungary
Regions	Northern Hungary
County	Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)

Martonyi is a village in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County in northeastern Hungary.^[1]

Aerial photo of MArtonyi

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• Aerial photos of Martonyi

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Coordinates: 48°28′N 20°46′E / 48.467°N 20.767°E / 48.467; 20.767

Titus Corlăţean (born January 11, 1968) is a Romanian politician and diplomat. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), part of the Party of European Socialists, and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for Braşov County in the 2004 elections. He became a Member of the European Parliament on January 1, 2007, with the accession of Romania to the European Union.

Corlăţean was born in Medgidia, and graduated from the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Law in 1994. He also earned a certificate from the International Institute of the École Nationale d'Administration in Paris (1995).

Between 1994 and 2001, Corlăţean worked as a diplomat in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, before joining Prime Minister's Adrian Năstase's Chancellery in 2001-2003 (first as Adviser on Foreign Policy Issues, and, after 2003, as Secretary of State for the Romanian diaspora). He has been a member of the PSD since 2002, serving as spokesperson for its Coordinating Committee after 2004.

Corlăţean is married and the father of one.

References[link]

• (Romanian) Profile at the Chamber of Deputies site

External links[link]

• European Parliament profile
• European Parliament official photo