Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has left for the United States where he will attend the American Conservative Union’s summer conference CPAC and will also conduct bilateral meetings, Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief informed the Hungarian news agency MTI on Monday. Members of the delegation include Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó, Balázs Orbán, the Prime Minister’s political director, and Chair of Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee Zsolt Németh.
Mr Orbán has been asked to deliver one of the opening addresses at one of the world’s largest and most influential conservative events, the American Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
CPAC is a conservative political jamboree established in 1974 which is organised by the American Conservative Union (ACU), and has during its history of almost half a century grown to be one of the ACU’s most popular events mobilising tens of thousands of conservatives.