Through the Eyes of a Diplomat – Photo Exhibition in Szeged

An exhibition of photographs by André Erdős, former UN ambassador of Hungary, opens on Tuesday in the Black House at the Móra Ferenc Museum in the city Szeged, SE Hungary.

As, Anita Hegedűs, press officer of the public collection, told MTI, the public can see photographs from the 1960s until 2004 of the ambassador's assignments and the most important moments of his professional life. The photos include Moscow, Geneva, New Delhi and Paris, featuring personalities like UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Most of the photos were taken in New York, where the diplomat worked for more than a decade and a half.

André Erdős was born in 1941 in Algiers and began his career in 1965 in the Arab Department of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1978 to 1983, he was a member of the Hungarian Mission to the United Nations in New York, and in 1990, he was appointed Ambassador to the UN, representing Hungary on the Security Council in 1992-93.

He returned to Hungary in 1994 and continued to serve as Deputy State Secretary for Foreign Affairs. He later became a member and then Chairman of the UN Secretary General's Advisory Committee on Disarmament.

In 1997, he returned to New York as UN Ambassador and in 2002, he served as Hungarian Ambassador to Paris. After his retirement, he became Vice-President of the Hungarian UN Society and Professor Emeritus at the Corvinus University of Budapest.