“As a result of the vote that occurred at the 40th session of the UNESCO General Conference, Hungary has been elected to the organisation’s Executive Board; after an absence of ten years the country will be returning to the highly prestigious body”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s press chief, Máté Paczolay said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Thursday.
“The new European Commission must accelerate its negotiations on free trade agreements; Hungary has an interest in the global economy being as open as possible”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared in the recess of a meeting of EU foreign Ministers discussing international trade affairs on Thursday afternoon in Brussels.
“Hungary has decided on the deployment of a further 170 soldiers, with which it is increasing the number of its military personnel in NATO missions by one third”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó stated on Wednesday following a one-day meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó opened a consular office in the Maltese capital of Valletta on Wednesday.
“We should not be talking about the readmittance of foreign fighters who joined the Islamic State, but about their punishment”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Tuesday in summary of his speech at a UN Security Council debate in New York.
“Resolving conflicts requires sincerity and mutual respect to return to international dialogue”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared on Tuesday in New York, where he took part in an event organised by the UN Inter-Agency Working Group on Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration.
“A joint Hungarian-American fund has been established to fund the exports of small and medium-sized enterprises to the American market”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a telephone statement to Hungarian news agency MTI from New York on Tuesday.
“Waves of migration from Africa can only be prevented through the provision of suitable levels of development funding to African countries, to enable them to keep their population in place”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Monday after receiving Ugandan Minister of Security Gen. Elly Tumwine.
“Hungary and Estonia are taking joint action to ensure that the international community wants to stop migration, not encourage it”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Monday in Budapest.
Hungary has concluded an economic cooperation agreement with Malaysia; the document was signed on Friday by Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó and Malaysia’s Minister of International Trade and Industry Darell Leiking.