Bertalan Havasi, the Deputy State Secretary heading the Press Office of the Prime Minister, informed Hungarian news agency MTI that on Thursday afternoon Prime Minister Viktor Orbán paid his respects to the memory of former US President George HW Bush by making an entry in the book of condolence which has been opened at the US Embassy in Budapest.

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The press chief said that the Prime Minister was received at the entrance to the Embassy by David Cornstein, United States Ambassador to Hungary, with whom he had talks after having offered his condolences.

(MTI)