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A negotiated settlement of the Syrian conflict is a matter of extreme urgency
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, April 7, 2017 12:57 PM
“The Hungarian Government rejects all attacks using chemical weapons and the events also confirm that a negotiated settlement of the Syrian conflict is a matter of extreme urgency”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade told Hungarian news agency MTI on Friday.
Hungary has a major interest in cooperation with Slovenia
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, April 6, 2017 3:59 PM
“There are three major development projects currently underway or under negotiation in Hungarian-Slovenian cooperation, which serve Hungary’s energy security and interests to a high degree”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó stressed in a telephone statement to Hungarian news agency MTI during his official visit to Ljubljana.
The international community must find a global solution to the situation
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, April 5, 2017 7:51 PM
“It is the responsibility of the international community to find a global solution to the situation in Syria and Iraq, because the conflict in the region represents a major danger to the whole world”, István Mikola said on Wednesday in Budapest on the closing day of a two-day conference on Syria.
America is Hungary’s number one export market outside the EU
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, April 5, 2017 6:09 PM
“The United States has become Hungary’s number one export market outside the European Union, with exports increasing by 11 percent in January of this year”, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade said in Győr at the foundation stone laying ceremony for Dana Hungary Limited’s new 13 thousand square metre factory, which is being built with an investment of 46 million euros.
Expanding cooperation opportunities with Madagascar
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, April 5, 2017 5:17 PM
On 26-31 March 2017, Madagascar’s Deputy Foreign Minister for International Cooperation Bary Emmanuel Rafatrolaza was on an official visit to Hungary at the invitation of Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Dr. László Szabó.
Hungary strongly condemns the latest missile test conducted by North Korea
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, April 5, 2017 11:43 AM
The Government of Hungary condemns in the strongest possible terms the latest missile test carried out on 5 April 2017 by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
Direct air passenger route to be launched between Kosovo and Hungary
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, April 5, 2017 10:47 AM
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Minister of State for Economic Diplomacy, Levente Magyar, held talks in Kosovo on Tuesday, including on the launching of a direct air passenger route; the Budapest-Pristina route, which will be launched this week, will be operated by Wizz Air, which has its headquarters in Hungary.
BYD opens electric bus factory in Komárom
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, April 5, 2017 10:46 AM
Chinese company BYD opened its first European production plant in the Komárom Industrial Park on Tuesday. The factory will manufacture four hundred electric buses-a-year.
Foreign universities - Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade summons American and German chargés d’affaires
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, April 4, 2017 5:39 PM
Deputy State Secretary Kristóf Altusz has summoned the temporary chargés d’affaires of the United States and Germany on Wednesday to discuss the Act on Higher Education”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade informed Hungarian news agency MTI on Tuesday.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó expresses his condolences regarding the bus accident in northern Sweden
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, April 4, 2017 9:45 AM
At 7 a.m. on the morning of 2 April 2017, a bus carrying schoolchildren rolled over and crashed into a roadside ditch for as yet unknown reasons near the town of Sveg in northern Sweden. According to news reports, three of the 52 secondary school children on board died as a result of the accident, and dozens more were injured.