János Martonyi

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The native form of this personal name is Martonyi János. This article uses the Western name order.

János Martonyi (Cluj-Napoca, April 5, 1944) is a Hungarian politician of the Fidesz party, and Foreign Minister of Hungary between 1998 and 2002. More recently he was part of the Amato Group that unofficially drafted a new treaty for the European Union after the European Constitution was rejected by the French and Dutch voters.

In April 2007, Hungarian journalist Péter Kende reported in a weekly newspaper that Martonyi delivered reports to the Hungarian secret police in the 1960s, and that secret police files confirmed this. According to the files, Martonyi wrote among other things reports on the Hungarian emigrant scene in Germany and France.^[1]

Martonyi is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.