National Development Minister Tamas Fellegi has started on Friday a five-day official visit to Washington to hold talks on energy policy among other issues, the ministry told MTI.

The minister is to hold talks with leading officials of the US energy and foreign departments as well as leading figures of the corporate sector to discuss energy and climate policy issues; participate in a roundtable conference of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) with energy experts and hold a lecture at a session of the Atlantic Council.