Hungarian Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai will meet US Vice-President Joe Biden during the four-day working visit starting in Washington, DC, on Wednesday.
Bajnai’s entourage will include Defence Minister Imre Szekeres, liberal Free Democrat parliamentary leader Janos Koka and a Bajnai advisor, Andras Simonyi, Hungary’s former ambassador to the United States.
Just after his arrival on Wednesday afternoon, Bajnai will hold talks with IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
The prime minister will meet Biden on Friday to discuss the new Afghanistan strategy of the United States, future participation in the Afghanistan mission and the Western Balkans.
The prime minister is scheduled to meet senior members of the US Senate and former secretary of state Madeleine Albright. He will give an economic policy talk on the European Union after Lisbon, and attend a Council on Foreign Relations roundtable focusing on the development of transatlantic relations.
Bajnai’s talks will focus on the ways of managing the economic crisis, the partnership of Europe and America after Lisbon, the future of NATO and energy policy issues.
Bajnai will meet Hungary’s honorary consuls in the United States and attend the Santa Claus dinner of the Hungarian American Coalition together with Janos Martonyi, foreign minister of the Fidesz-led government from 1998 to 2002.
