“Economic development will be the most important task and mission of the Consulate General in Lendava”, Minister of State for Economic Diplomacy Levente Magyar from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said on Monday in the Slovenian town of Lendava (Lendva) at the opening ceremony of the new Consulate General.
“The security of Europe currently depends on the stability of Turkey and accordingly those who attack the latter are essentially undermining the security of the continent”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó stressed on Wednesday in Strasbourg, where he is attending a session of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers.
“Hungary will only readmit those migrants who first entered the territory of the European Union at this country”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI Wednesday.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó has said that the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has become unfit to fill any kind of post within the UN. Mr. Szijjártó was responding to a statement by the High Commissioner in which he criticised “populist” politicians.
“The increasingly strong tensions in the Western Balkan region represent a major security risk to Hungary”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian news agency MTI on Tuesday after attending the Bled Strategic Forum in Slovenia.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó held bilateral talks on security and energy policy with three other EU foreign ministers at the Bled Strategic Forum in Slovenia.
In a statement issued on Monday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade announced that Serbian foreign minister Ivica Dačić will pay an official visit to Budapest in October.
It is Hungary’s national security interest that there should not be another coup in Turkey as the country’s destabilisation could lead to a flow of immigration that is more serious than that which we experienced last year, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó stated on Saturday in Pozsony (Bratislava) upon talking to the Hungarian public service media on the second, closing day of the informal meeting of the European Union’s Foreign Ministers.
“The question of security must come before all else when drawing up European Union policy and there is increasingly less debate on this within the EU today”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian public media during the informal two-day meeting of EU foreign ministers that began on Friday afternoon in Bratislava.
At an informal meeting of EU foreign ministers in Bratislava, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó held talks with Foreign Minister of Malta George Vella. Among others, they discussed the issue of migration.