Hungary / 23-07-2012
US envoy on antisemitism says attitudes towards minorities in Hungary should be monitored
The Hungarian government should immediately and firmly condemn all forms of antisemitism, US State Department Hannah Rosenthal declared in Budapest.
Rosenthal, the US special envoy for antisemitism, spoke after talks with government commissioner Levente András Gál.
Gál said they discussed ways of establishing a monitoring system that can provide a realistic picture by international standards of whether anti-minority or antisemitic phenomena exist in Hungary and in what form.
He told Rosenthal that a committee of historians is being formed to evaluate the history of the Carpathian Basin in the 20th century.
