“Transatlantic relations are important to Budapest”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said at a conference in Washington on Wednesday evening.
We can find a number of common denominators with Ursula von der Leyen, the new President of the European Commission, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said on the Wednesday evening programme of the public service television news channel M1.
In his speech at Wednesday’s session of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó called the proposal according to which member states must provide the same healthcare services to illegal immigrants as to their own citizens unacceptable.
At a prayer evening held in the US Legislative Capitol Building, the Minister of State for helping persecuted Christians at the Prime Minister’s Office, who is also responsible for the implementation of the Hungary Helps Programme, outlined the Hungarian position which holds that help must be taken where there is trouble, rather than bringing problems here.
“Ukrainian leaders should not make unfounded accusation, but should instead restore the rights that have been taken away from national minorities”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s State Secretary for Information and the International Representation of Hungary Tamás Menczer said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Wednesday.
The Hungarian civic government will never sacrifice any of its national communities on the altar of the daily interests of imperial power politics, and would likewise never expect anything of the kind from other states, Gergely Gulyás, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said on Monday at the ceremonial inauguration of the Reformed church of Palágykomoróc (Palad’-Komarivtsi), near Ungvár (Uzhhorod), refurbished from grants provided by the Hungarian government.
“We have an interest in relations between Hungary and Ukraine improving significantly in future, and in the establishment of cooperation that is good for Ukraine, good for Hungary and good for Transcarpathian Hungarians”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared on Tuesday in Berehove (Beregszász), where he met with leaders of Transcarpathian Hungarian organisations.
Minister of Defence Dr. Tibor Benkő received Finland’s Ambassador to Budapest Markku Virri in his office on Monday, 15 July. Finland is taking over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from Romania from 1 July, and its priority tasks include issues relating to security and defence policy.
The Prague and the Szeged super laser centres will establish a joint international, so-called European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) in order to better explore the capacity and opportunities in the field of scientific research of the two cutting-edge research centres.
Relations between Hungary and the United States are improving also in the areas of the economy and finances, Finance Minister Mihály Varga pointed out after he received US Ambassador to Budapest David B. Cornstein in his office.