President Janos Ader laid a wreath at the symbolic grave of Imre Nagy and other martyrs of the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising in Paris' Pere Lachaise cemetery on Sunday at the start of his two-day official visit.
The symbolic grave was built on an initiative by Tibor Meray, a Hungarian writer and journalist living in Paris, and was inaugurated on 16 June 1988, a year before the ceremonial reburial of the victims of 1956 in Budapest. The memorial was designed by Laszlo Rajk and the plot was made available to Hungary's democratic opposition by then mayor of Paris and later French President Jacques Chirac free of charge.
After paying his tribute at the memorial in Pere Lachaise, Ader left for the Arc de Triomphe for a joint commemoration of the 57th anniversary of 1956 with his French hosts.
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