At a meeting between Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó and Vietnam’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son, the Government of Vietnam has proposed the construction of a new hospital and a water industry project worth EUR 350 million, to be implemented with Hungarian cooperation.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó had telephone consultations with Foreign Minister of the Republic of Iraq Ibrahim al-Jaafari, and Foreign Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government Falah Mustafa Bakir.
At a press conference held in Parliament on Tuesday, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said that Parliament had made the wisest and most responsible decision by granting authority to send Hungarian troops to join the campaign against Islamic State (IS).
In Barcelona on Monday, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said that unless the European Union responds rapidly and firmly to the processes taking place in neighbouring regions to the south and in the Middle East, it may soon face an unmanageable situation in terms of economy, security and migration.
Hungary joining the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) will help our country in developing its international financial and foreign trade relations and will increase the presence of Hungarian companies on Asian markets, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told kormany.hu.
Hungary condemns in the strongest terms the deadly terrorist attacks in the Northern part of the Sinai Peninsula in the cities of Sheikh Zuveid and el-Arish on 12 April, causing the death of at least 13 people and injuring many.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade announced on Thursday in Budapest that the United Nations specialised agency for information and communication technologies, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) will hold its telecommunications world conference (Telecom World) in the Hungarian capital this autumn.
The Minister emphasised at the press conference that Hungary handled Fruzsina Wilhelm’s case as a human issue, but a financial solution had to be found because Swedish authorities considered it as a financial problem.
We the Representatives of the Participating States: Volkan Bozkır, Ivica Dačić, Nikos Kotzias, Nikola Poposki and Péter Szijjártó having met in Budapest on 7 April 2015.
Foreign trade relations are balanced between Hungary and France, and Hungary considers France a very important investor, Minister of State of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade László Szabó told MTI following his three-day visit to France, where he had discussions to promote the increase of trade turnover, as well as to facilitate bilateral economic relations and French working capital inflow to Hungary.