On November 10, 1992, Boris Yeltsin, President of the Russian Federation, arrived in Hungary on an official visit. On November 11, the Russian head of state met in the Parliament building with President of the Republic Árpád Göncz, Prime Minister József Antall, Speaker of the House György Szabad, as well as the leaders of the parliamentary factions, and then delivered a speech before the plenary session of the legislature.

In his speech, he called the violent suppression of the 1956 Revolution an “indelible stain of shame on the Soviet system,” and bowed his head before the Hungarian people who rose up.

In the Dome Hall of the Parliament, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, Prime Minister József Antall, and representatives of the two governments signed seven Hungarian–Russian agreements, after which Boris Yeltsin handed over to President of the Republic Árpád Göncz the documents from 1956 that had until then been kept in the archives of the KGB and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.