“The Hungarians’ multiple, simultaneous links to both west and east are a huge resource”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Deputy State Secretary for Culture Judit Hammerstein said at the annual meeting of Hungarian Institute directors in Budapest on Thursday.
Food manufacturing company Nissin Foods inaugurated a new plant today in Kecskemét, significantly increasing the company’s production capacities in Hungary. The 33 million euro greenfield-investment established a new factory hall to replace the previous facilities. The food manufacturing company is producing its instant noodle products in Kecskemét since 2004.
“Cultural diplomacy can help create peace in a troubled and peaceless period”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó in a message to the annual meeting of the directors of international Hungarian Institutes in Budapest on Thursday.
On 6 July 2017, Minister of State for Security Policy and International Cooperation Dr. István Mikola from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Mr. Elhadj As Sy officially inaugurated the offices in Budapest that will serve as the new headquarters for the IFRC’s European Regional Office and Global Service Centre.
“The new natural gas transport route to Hungary could be established by the end of 2019”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI from Moscow after concluding an agreement with the CEO of Gazprom on Hungarian development projects relating to the new pipeline.
The Government of Hungary condemns the latest ballistic missile test by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the strongest possible terms.
Deputy State Secretary Szilveszter Bus held talks in Quito, Ecuador on 30 June 2017. His visit was the first Hungarian high-level contact with the new Ecuadorian administration that took office at the end of May. The governmental meetings aimed to set the two countries’ bilateral relations on a new track and give a fresh impetus to their cooperation.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó has informed Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that Hungary has an interest in the normalisation of American-Russian relations.
The Government of Hungary condemns in the strongest terms the ballistic missile test conducted by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on July 4, 2017.
“The facts prove that the Hungarian Government made the right decision when it based its Russia policy on common sense and mutual respect”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian news agency MTI by telephone from Moscow on Tuesday.