“A request for assistance has arrived from the Ukrainian authorities with relation to Ukrainian citizens wishing to return home from Western Europe”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on his Facebook page in Wednesday.
“Hungary will be able to purchase a further 2.2 billion cubic metres of natural gas from Gazprom this year, thus assuring the country’s gas supply for 2020”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced at a press conference in Moscow on Wednesday following talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
“Hungary’s foreign representation in Panama has evacuated eleven Hungarian citizens from a music festival that local armed forces have placed under quarantine because of the coronavirus pandemic”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Parliamentary State Secretary Levente Magyar said in a telephone statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Wednesday.
“Hungary is sending a plane to collect the 146 Hungarians who have become trapped in Morocco after the North African country stopped all scheduled flights because of the coronavirus pandemic”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced on his Facebook page on Wednesday morning.
“Romanian and Bulgarian citizens will be afforded a single transit opportunity on Tuesday night along the designated transit routes”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a Facebook post on Tuesday.
“There is also a major level of interdependence between the region’s countries with relation to the coronavirus epidemic, concerning protecting public health, assuring continuous supply, and maintaining the operational capacity of economies”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said at a press conference in Budapest on Tuesday following talks with his Czech, Slovak and Austrian counterparts.
For a short while, the government portal koronavirus.gov.hu was not available due to a web traffic overload attack initiated from an outside source, Csaba Dömötör, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister stated on his Facebook account.
“Freight traffic between Hungary and Slovenia is continuing unhindered, although under strict measures, and this is helping us to assure the continuous supply of the Hungarian people”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó emphasised in Ljubljana on Monday.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó discussed the epidemic situation being caused by the coronavirus with his Italian counterpart, Foreign Minister Luigi di Maio on Sunday.
“Following the trumped-up conflicts of recent years, the time has now come for the development of Hungarian-Slovenian economic, energy and cultural cooperation”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Saturday in reaction to the new Slovenian government taking office.