A memorial conference on Carinal József Mindszenty and the launch of a book on his years at the U.S. Embassy in Budapest (1956-1970) were held in Budapest on 16 October 2019.
“The Hungarian government has given Hungarian interests a priority throughout the Brexit process”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s State Secretary for Information and the International Representation of Hungary Tamás Menczer said in a video posted on his Facebook page on Saturday.
“Vodafone has been continuously striving for modernisation in Hungary for 20 years and is playing a major part in the social application of 5G, the most modern telecommunications technology”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Thursday to mark the fact that Vodafone, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary, launched Hungary’s first ever commercial 5G services covering Budapest’s city centre.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade will be holding an international conference in November entitled “Racialisation that Leads to Terrorism: Regional Political Responses and Risk Reduction”.
“The issue of water connects us, because we use the Earth’s water stocks together, and accordingly we are jointly responsible for preserving their quantity and quality”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said at the Budapest Water Summit on Thursday.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó held talks with African water ministers on the sidelines of the Budapest Water Summit; hundreds of thousands of people in Africa have access to clean drinking water with the help of Hungarian technologies, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s chief press officer Máté Paczolay said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Thursday. In recent years, Hungarian water industry enterprises have achieved major results on the African continent, the press chief pointed out.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó discussed the business opportunities inherent in Hungarian water-related technologies with the ministers of water of Laos and Kuwait, and North Macedonia’s minister of environment, whom he received in his office on Thursday on the sidelines of the 2019 Budapest Water Summit, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI.
“We will be signing important agreements on cooperation with the fields of the economy, social security and sport during Russian president Vladimir Putin’s visit to Budapest on 30 October”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI from Moscow on Wednesday.
“It is tantamount to a tragedy that the European Union has decided not to commence accession negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia, because the delay is endangering the region’s peace and stability”, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Parliamentary State Secretary and Deputy Foreign Minister Levente Magyar declared on Tuesday in Luxembourg.
The “Hungarian Days” were held for the fifth time in Tel Aviv on 15-17 October. At the large-scale festival realised within the framework of the Israeli Hungarian Cultural Season with funding from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Ministry’s Deputy State Secretary for Cultural Diplomacy Márton Schőberl gave a speech and planted a carob tree as a reinforcement of Israeli-Hungarian relations.