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The situation with relation to Ukraine has significantly worsened
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, October 25, 2018 2:00 PM
“The situation with relation to Ukraine has significantly worsened in view of the fact that nothing has happened with relation to amendment of the Education Act and the new Language Act, which strips national communities of their right to use their native language in culture, media and public administration, in addition to education, has also been adopted”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared in Brussels on Thursday.
The Government is extremely appreciative of Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš’s support of Hungary
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, October 25, 2018 1:38 PM
According to Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó, the Government is greatly appreciative of Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš’s support of Hungary, and considers it to be a guideline.
We are grateful to all the heroes of 1956
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, October 25, 2018 11:56 AM
“We are grateful to all the heroes of 1956, in view of the fact that they played a major role in enabling us to enjoy freedom today”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a video message to cross-border Hungarians and Hungarian foreign representations.
Hungary is calling for the rapid EU accession of the Western Balkans
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, October 25, 2018 11:52 AM
“Hungary is calling for the decided acceleration of the European Union accession process of the Western Balkan countries”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó stressed on Wednesday in the Polish capital at a podium discussion during the Warsaw Security Forum international security policy conference.
It is disinformation that the V4 did not issue a joint statement at the initiative of Viktor Orbán
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, October 24, 2018 4:02 PM
“The piece of new published on the 444 portal is disinformation, a typical piece of fake news”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI. In the statement, which was issued on Wednesday, the Minister did not wish to comment on the non-public part of the V4 prime ministerial meetings, but called the piece published on the 444 news portal disinformation and a typical piece of fake news. In an article published on Wednesday, the internet portal wrote that the V4 did not issue a joint statement following the V4-Japan summit at the initiative of Viktor Orbán.
Hungary has proposed that Ukraine concludes a minority protection treaty
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, October 24, 2018 3:30 PM
“Hungary has proposed that Ukraine concludes a minority protection treaty”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI from Warsaw, where he held talks with his Ukrainian counterpart, Pavlo Klimkin, on the sidelines of a security policy forum. Trust between the two countries needs to be rebuilt, he added.
There will never be agreement on the adoption of mandatory resettlement quotas
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, October 19, 2018 8:25 PM
“It is good news with relation to the admittance of refugees that the issue of mandatory quotas has finally been removed from the agenda and everyone has understood that there will be no quotas, because there can be no quotas”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared on Friday in Brussels in a statement to Hungarian reporters in the recess of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM).
It in Europe’s interests to establish tighter relations with Asia
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, October 19, 2018 6:01 PM
“It is in Europe’s definite interests to establish even tighter relations with Asia in view of the fact that a global trade and economic war is beginning to unfold”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared in Brussels in the recess of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) on Friday.
Hungary expresses its deepest sympathies to the families and relatives of the victims of the Kerch attack
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, October 19, 2018 12:52 PM
Hungary expresses its deepest sympathies to the families and relatives of the 20 victims of the gun and bomb attacks at the Technical College in Kerch.
An agreement must be reached with London on the conditions for Brexit
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, October 19, 2018 12:32 PM
According to Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó, it is obvious that an agreement must be reached on the system of conditions for the termination of the United Kingdom’s EU membership (Brexit), because failure to come to an agreement would cause major damage to the remaining European Union in view of the fact that the United Kingdom is the EU’s second largest economy and the world’s fifth largest.