Three persons have to date indicated at the duty telephone number of the Hungarian Embassy in Berlin that they cannot locate their relatives, Tamás Menczer, Press Chief of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said early morning on Tuesday on the public service television news channel M1.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó has sent a letter of condolence to German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier following Monday evening’s attack in Berlin.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade was deeply shocked to receive the news of the armed attack on a Muslim mosque in Zurich on Monday evening.
“It is with shock that we received the news of the attack against the Russian Ambassador to Ankara, which we condemn in the strongest possible terms”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian news agency MTI on Monday after Ambassador Andrey Karlov was killed in a terrorist attack in the Turkish capital on Monday evening.
“Hungary and Latvia have a strong alliance and are in agreement on many important issues concerning the future of the European Union”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in Budapest following talks with his Latvian counterpart.
Hungary condemns in the strongest terms the terrorist attack in the Jordanian city of Karak on 18 December, which claimed the lives of Jordanian security personnel, civilians and a foreign tourist, and left many others wounded.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó concluded economic and education agreements and held negotiations in the launching of a direct Budapest-Pristina air passenger route during a two-day visit to Kosovo.
The Paks site is suitable for the construction of new atomic power station blocks, the most complex examination of recent decades has verified this, Attila Aszódi said at a press conference which was held on Tuesday in Paks before the site planning permission public hearing of the Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority.
Following a meeting of EU foreign ministers and ministers for EU affairs in Brussels on Tuesday, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said that the stability of Turkey is a prerequisite for the security of Europe. Therefore, he said, any irrational step which could undermine this stability or which might lead to a loosening of the relationship between the EU and Turkey is to be avoided.
“It is definitely a significant occasion for all of us to see the realization of the common efforts of the Hungarian Government and the World Health Organization for establishing a WHO centre in Budapest and further enhancing the efficiency of the organization’s work” said Dr. István Mikola, Minister of State for Security Policy and International Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary today at the official opening ceremony of the World Health Organization Budapest Centre.