According to Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó, the comments against Hungary made by Luxembourgian Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn and European Parliament (EP) President Martin Schultz are severely worsening the European crisis.
“These days Europe is primarily concentrating on its southern neighbourhood with regard to immigration, but its eastern neighbourhood is at least as important from the point of view of the security of the continent, and so it is in Europe’s interests for there also to be stability and peace there”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian news agency MTI in a telephone interview on Tuesday following several meetings in Chişinău.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó has responded to statements by Foreign Minister of Luxembourg Jean Asselborn which appeared in the Tuesday edition of the German daily “Die Welt”.
“Hungary and Serbia are close strategic partners and this is something that would have been out of the question just a few years ago”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó stressed on Friday in Belgrade following talks with Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić and Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić.
“It is the country, not the government, which has a stake in the 2 October referendum on the compulsory resettlement quota”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Saturday in Kötcse.
The Government of Hungary condemns in the strongest terms the nuclear test carried out by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on September 9, 2016.
“One of the largest infrastructure development projects in the Central European region is being realised via cooperation between Hungary, Serbia and China with the renovation of the Budapest-Belgrade railways line and its conversion to double tracks, thanks to which Hungary’s strategic role in the region is gaining further strength”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Friday in Belgrade.
“The Hungarian Government and the people of Hungary cannot be pressured and on 2 October the Hungarians will express what they think about illegal immigration and forced resettlement”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian news agency MTI on Friday.
”The American Dana Group will be launching a 15 billion forint (EUR 49M) investment project in Győr in early 2017”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced.
“Hungary’s energy security could improve by never before seen levels if we can also purchase natural gas via Croatia and Romania”, the Hungarian Foreign Minister declared on Thursday in Budapest following a meeting with European Commissioner for Energy Miguel Arias Cañete.