“It is untenable that the fight against terrorism is not part of the United Nations’ budget, while the global organisation is wasting its money on causes that pose a danger to the entire world, such as facilitating migration”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared in Vienna on Tuesday during his speech at a counter-terrorism conference.
“Hungary is highly respected within the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in view of the fact that in recent years is has done very much to guarantee the protection and security of nuclear facilities both within its own territory and globally”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared on Monday in his speech at the IAEA International Conference on Nuclear Security.
“It is still not up to the Hungarian government whether we return to good Hungarian-Ukrainian relations”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó wrote on his Facebook page with relation to the Ukrainian Language Act issue.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó informed his Ukrainian partner with relation to the Hungarian proposal for simultaneously teaching Ukrainian as a minority language and preserving the native language of Transcarpathian Hungarian during his visit to Kiev, he told reporters at a joint press conference with Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Dmitro Kuleba following their meeting in Kiev on Friday.
“Hungary and Brazil are working in close cooperation in the United Nations in the interests of assuring that the global organisation cannot use the Global Compact for Migration, which the Hungarian government previously rejected, as a basis of reference for international law”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI from Washington on Thursday following talks with Brazilian Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo.
“Hungary has joined the International Religious Freedom Alliance, as the first European Union country to do so”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI from Washington on Wednesday.
“New impetus is required within the field of resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, to enable the Middle Eastern peace process to gain renewed strength; this is also extremely important from the perspective of European security, and within it Hungarian security”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared on Wednesday following a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and advisor Jared Kushner in the White House in Washington DC.
With Brexit, Hungary has lost one of its important allies within the EU but the Government is confident that the British-Hungarian economic relations may grow stronger after the exit of the island state, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Trade asserted on Tuesday in Budapest at a press conference announcing an iiPay investment.
“An agreement has been concluded on the fact that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will be delegating two diplomats to Chisinau to assist the work of the Moldovan government with relation to European integration processes”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced in the Moldovan capital following talks with Moldovan Minister for Foreign Affairs and EU Integration Aureliu Ciocoi.
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade knew of eight Hungarian citizens who have until now been in the Chinese province of Hubei, which has been affected by the coronavirus epidemic, seven of whom indicated that they would like to return home ahead of time, and they arrived in Budapest yesterday evening”, the Ministry’s Minister of State for Information and the International Representation of Hungary said on Hungarian M1 current affairs television on Monday morning.