“Mercedes-Benz is building a new press plant in Kecskemét with an investment of some fifty billion forints (EUR 150 million); the expansion of the car plant will create 200 new workplaces”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced on Friday in Kecskemét.
“Germany could soon decide on making an exception to the export ban and will be shipping the previously ordered protective equipment to Hungary”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said at a press conference in Budapest on Friday. The Minister held a meeting with the foreign ministers of the Visegrád Group countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, the V4) and Germany. Mr. Szijjártó noted that the meeting was originally to be held in Prague, but the parties decided to hold a video conference in view of the coronavirus epidemic.
“There are no political barriers and no open questions within the field of political cooperation that could endanger, prevent or impede bilateral economic and business cooperation between Hungary and Moldova”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Thursday morning at the opening of the Hungary-Moldova Business Forum. “Political relations have never been so good”, the Minister underlined.
“In addition to interests, common values form the basis of the alliance between Hungary and Estonia; the two countries share the same opinions with relation to the challenges facing Europe and the world”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared on Tuesday in Tallinn, where he held talks with his Estonian counterpart Urmas Reinsalu.
“The countries of Central Europe are now ‘net security contributors’ to NATO operations; Hungary can be proud of its involvement”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared on Tuesday in Vilnius, where the foreign ministers of nine NATO member states began a two-day conference on security issues.
“The blocking of NATO-Ukraine Council meetings will continue until we are able to come to an agreement on the restoration of removed minority rights”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared at Tuesday’s session of the National Assembly.
The founding session of the Hungarian-Lebanese Joint Economic Committee (JEC) was held in Budapest on 6 March 2020. The Hungarian delegation was led by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s State Secretary for Security Policy, JEC CO-Chair Péter Sztáray, while Lebanon was represented by the Lebanese Ministry of Economy’s General Director of Economy and Trade Alia S. Abbas.
“The opinion voiced by Hungary in 2015 then the first wave of migration reached Europe has now become the general European position”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Kossuth Radio’s “Sunday Paper” show.
“The EU has assured Greece of its full solidarity with relation to the fact that it must face major migration pressure because of the large number of migrants arriving from the direction of Turkey”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Friday in Zagreb following an extraordinary meeting of EU foreign ministers.
At the invitation of Stephen J. Schneider, AIPAC Director of International Affairs, Hungarian State Secretary for Security Policy Péter Sztáray paid an official visit to Washington, DC between March 1-3, 2020. During the visit, Sztáray discussed the latest developments and the path forward in transatlantic relations with high-ranking representatives of the White House, the Department of Defense, and the Department of State. He also participated in a panel discussion at the annual AIPAC conference.