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Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade on the terrorist attack in Saint Petersburg
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, April 4, 2017 9:45 AM
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade was shocked to learn about the terrorist attack in Saint Petersburg, which we condemn in the strongest possible terms.
The situation in Europe’s southern neighbourhood is becoming increasingly unstable
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, April 4, 2017 9:44 AM
“There is increasingly instability in Europe’s southern neighbourhood; more and more increasingly serious crises are emerging and there have been no successful breakthroughs in resolving these issues despite the efforts of the European Union and the international community”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared in Luxembourg as a meeting of EU foreign ministers.
Hungary will not allow Hungarian community living in Ukraine to be placed at a disadvantage
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, April 3, 2017 11:52 AM
Hungary is helping Ukraine in the EU integration processes, and is a committed supporter of the granting of visa-free travel and the approval of the free trade agreement planned to be entered into with the European Union, but will not allow the Hungarian national community to be placed at a disadvantage, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó stated after the one-day Brussels meeting of the Foreign Ministers of NATO Member States in an interview given to the Hungarian news agency MTI on Friday.
Statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade regarding the landslide in Colombia
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, April 2, 2017 7:53 PM
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade was shocked to learn about the consequences of the landslide that hit Mocoa, capital of the department of Putumayo in South-West Colombia, on the 1st of April, 2017, and which has already claimed hundreds of lives.
Hungary supports NATO joining Global Coalition to Counter ISIS
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, March 31, 2017 3:06 PM
“Hungary supports the American proposal that NATO should formally join the Global Coalition to Counter ISIS”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian reporters in the recess of a meeting of NATO ministers in Brussels.
Visit of the Assistant Foreign Minister of the Arab Republic of Egypt
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, March 31, 2017 2:19 PM
Within the framework of the bilateral consultation mechanism established between Hungary and the Arab Republic of Egypt, Deputy State Secretary for Opening to the South Szilveszter Bus held talks with Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt Ihab Nasr in Budapest on 30 March 2017.
The southern energy blockade, which is disadvantageous to Hungary, refuses to be resolved
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, March 31, 2017 11:53 AM
“Central Europe is on the front lines with regard to the issue of energy security, in view of the fact that it is strongly dependent on a single supply source because of missing infrastructure, and the southern energy blockade, which is disadvantageous to Hungary, refuses to be resolved”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Thursday when he presented the Knight's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit to the U.S. State Department’s former Special Envoy for International Energy Affairs Amos J. Hochstein.
The Hungarian economy must be moved forward into a new dimension
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, March 30, 2017 4:42 PM
“In view of the transformation that is going on within the global economy, the Hungarian economy must be moved forward into a new dimension and the previous ‘made in Hungary’ era must be developed into an era of ‘invented in Hungary’”, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade said in Budapest on Thursday at the opening ceremony of an economic conference entitled Labour Shortages on Land, Sea and Air.
Hungary would like to become an innovation centre
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, March 30, 2017 2:52 PM
“Hungary would increasingly like to become an innovation centre, and for this reason beginning next year all enterprises involved in research & development will be able deduct twice as much money from their taxable base as they spend on innovation”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced at the think.BDPST innovation conference in Budapest on Wednesday.
Hungarian-Israeli Joint Economic Cooperation Committee had another meeting
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, March 30, 2017 11:19 AM
The fourth meeting of the Hungarian-Israeli Joint Economic Cooperation Committee was held on 28-29 March 2017, in Jerusalem. The Hungarian delegation was led by Dr István Mikola, State Secretary for Security Policy and International Cooperation of Hungary’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, while the Israeli delegation was headed by Ohad Cohen, Head of Foreign Trade Administration at the Israeli Ministry of Economy and Industry, Chair of the Israeli section of the Committee.