“The Hungarian government rejects all general criticism with relation to the state of the rule of law, but is always prepared to provide responses to our partners with relation to concrete issues”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared on Thursday in the Hague following a meeting with his Dutch counterpart Stef Blok.
“Hungary supports the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPWC) and is committed to the world being totally free of chemical weapons”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Thursday in The Hague following talks with Director-General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Fernando Arias.
The purpose of all international meetings conducted by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is the enforcement of Hungarian national interests.
“Bilateral relations between Hungary and Russia are in order; there are no open issues”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s State Secretary for Information and the International Representation of Hungary Tamás Menczer said on Hungarian M1 current affairs television on Thrusday in assessment of Wednesday’s meeting between the Hungarian Prime Minister and the Russian President.
“The NATO member states and Ukraine adopted the Hungarian proposal with relation to the NATO -Ukraine joint statement at the very last moment, after the expiry of the official deadline. This means that our stand in support of Transcarpathian Hungarians has achieved results”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Thursday.
On Thursday morning in the Carmelite Monastery in Budapest, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received a delegation of the Chinese Fudan University which set up operations in Hungary.
Hungary has a vested interest in the improvement of cooperation between the West and Russia, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated after he had talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday in Budapest.
“Wages and salaries increased by 10.7 percent in the first eight months of 2019, meaning the increase in wages in Hungary has been in double figures for the third year running”, Minister of Finance Mihály Varga said, commenting on the latest earnings figures published this morning. “During the past year, calculated in the national currency, gross wages have increased by the highest level in Hungary from among the countries of the Visegrád Group (V4), which is also greatly assisting the growth of the Hungarian economy via increasing consumption”, the Minister highlighted.
“Never before has Hungary’s gas supply been on such a secure footing; Hungary’s gas storage facilities are full for the first time in history”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said following a meeting with CEO of Gazprom Alexei Miller.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó called close cooperation between East and West, and Hungary’s role as a bridge, a Hungarian interest at the Eurasia Forum in Budapest on Wednesday.