Editors: Lídia Balogh, Pál Germuska, Gusztáv D. Kecskés with the assistance of András Kiss
ELTE Research Centre for the Humanities – ELTE Centre for Social Studies, Budapest, 2026
ISSN 3094-3892
ISBN 978-963-416-548-4
DOI 10.65480/un.2026.00
Contents
Introduction to the Hungary and the United Nations Book Series 7
Editors’ Foreword 9
AT THE INTERSECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND DIPLOMACY 13
Judit Acsády – Lídia Balogh – Vivien Moór
The Implementation of the UN Trafficking Convention by Hungary 14
István Lakatos
Human Rights Issues and Dilemmas in the Early Kádár Era: The First Decade of Hungary’s UN Membership (1955–1965) 46
Katalin Somlai
From Újpest to a New World: Imre Hollai’s Political and Diplomatic Career 84
UN ORGANISATIONS AND HUNGARY 105
Endre Domaniczky
The Relationship between UNICEF and Hungary: Overview and Periodisation 106
Gabriella Vámos
Public Health in an International Context: Relations between Hungary and the World Health Organisation (WHO) until 1963 126
Szabolcs László
In the Orbit of UNESCO: The International Society for Music Education (ISME) and the Internationalisation of Hungarian Music Education Based on the Kodály Concept in the 1960s 146
András Kiss
Hungary and the Establishment of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) 178
THE HUNGARIAN QUESTION AT THE UNITED NATIONS (1956−1962) 211
András Nagy
Secret Agents in the Glass Palace 212
Gergely Fejérdy
Otto von Habsburg and the Hungarian Cause at the United Nations 228
Alexander Sergeyevich Stykalin
The Hungarian Question at the UN and Soviet Foreign Policy 252
THE PERIOD OF REGIME CHANGE AND WHAT FOLLOWED 271
Mónika Szente-Varga
Hungarians in the UN Election Observation Mission in Nicaragua (ONUVEN), 1990 276
Tamás Nagy
Hungarian Peacekeepers in the Middle East: Partic ipation in the UN Iraq–Iran Military Observer Group, 1988−1991 296
Gábor Boldizsár
The Role of the Hungarian Armed Forces in the United Nations Mission in Mozambique (ONUMOZ), 1992–1994 330
