About János Martonyi
János Martonyi is a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1998 to 2002 and from 2010 to 2014. He is a member of the Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union party. 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. Martonyi's foreign policy's motto was a quote from 17th-century poet Miklós Zrínyi: "Don't hurt the Hungarian!" His first visit abroad was to Serbia. Martonyi was awarded the National Order of Merit of France in 2000 and the Central Cross of the Order of the Republic of Hungary with Star in 2003. In 2016, he won the Széchenyi Prize and the Rising Sun Order of Merit. He won the Hungarian Corvin Chain in 2018 and the Civic Hungary Award in 2024.
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