“It was a good decision on the part of the government to launch the Eastern Opening Policy ten years ago, and this is one of the reasons why the Hungarian Embassy was opened in the Kyrgyzstani capital of Bishkek on Wednesday”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared at a Kyrgyzstan-Hungary business forum. The event held prior to the official opening of the new embassy was attended by Economy Minister Sanzhar Mukanbetov and local businesspeople.
“Hungary has been a member of the elite club of 35 countries that is capable of exporting over 100 billion euros annually for three years now”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared on Tuesday in Tashkent at the official opening of the Uzbekistan-Hungary business forum.
“The mandate of the EU’s Operation Sophia, aimed at eradicating people smuggling on the Mediterranean Sea, cannot be extended, but instead a totally new operation will be launched after it expires in March”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Monday in Brussels in the recess of a meeting of European Union foreign ministers.
“Natural gas will also be able to arrive in Hungary from Azerbaijan beginning in 2023; 1-2 billion cubic metres-a-year”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced in Budapest on Friday.
The Hungarian-Kuwaiti Joint Economic Committee held its third session in Budapest on 11 February 2020. The Hungarian delegation was led by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s State Secretary for Civil intelligence Tamás Vargha, while the Kuwaiti Co-Chair of the Committee was State Secretary Saleh Ahmed al-Sawari from Kuwait’s Ministry of Finance.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó signed a comprehensive strategic development cooperation agreement with the Republic of Rwanda’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Vincent Biruta on Thursday in Budapest.
“Based on last year’s figures, eastern and western investors both have confidence in the Hungarian economy, and accordingly Hungary remains open to domestic cooperation between East and West”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared on Wednesday in Budapest at the Investor of the Year 2019 Award gala.
“The European Union is facing many dilemmas, and Hungary and Flanders have a similar approach to these, their positions concur with relation to strategic points”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Wednesday in Budapest at a joint press conference with Minister-President of Flanders Jan Jambon.
In an interview for Austrian news agency APA published on Wednesday, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said that in his opinion the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) has been “very rational” in the debate that has developed within the European People’s Party (EPP) with relation to Fidesz.
“South Korean company Soulbrain is establishing a plant in Tatabánya with an investment of some seven billion forints (EUR 20 million), where it will produce electrolytes for lithium batteries on an area of 47000 square metres; the government is providing 425 million forints (EUR 1.25 million) in non-returnable funding towards the project”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced at a press conference in Budapest on Wednesday.