In Jerusalem on Thursday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that in the future the friendship between Hungary and Israel will continue to be strengthened.
Meeting President of Israel Reuven Rivlin in Jerusalem on Thursday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that in the future the Hungarian government will continue to fulfil all its obligations to members of the Jewish community in Hungary.
In Jerusalem on Thursday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that he has the same views as the Prime Minister of Israel with regard to several 21st-century issues, including security, combatting terrorism, the defence of borders and the problem of modern-day anti-Semitism.
“The success of Hungarian-Israeli economic relations is extremely important with regard to maintaining the growth trajectory of the Hungarian economy”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared in a statement to public media in Jerusalem on Thursday.
“Hungary is exiting the adoption process of the Global Compact for Migration”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced at a press conference following Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting in Budapest.
Ministerial Commissioner Ferenc Kalmár from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade called for the reinforcement of the collective rights of national minorities in representation of Hungary at a conference held to mark the 10th anniversary of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) Bolzano Recommendations on National Minorities.
“The Government’s number one goal continues to be to preserve the security of the Hungarian people”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared in New York on Friday.
“The Hungarian Government is providing some 5.5 billion forints (EUR 264 million) in funding, some 37 percent of the 15 billion forints (EUR 720 million) investment”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Minister of State for Communication Tamás Menczer said at the official launch of the project.
The Prime Minister’s press chief Bertalan Havasi has announced that on Wednesday afternoon Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will begin an official visit to Israel, where he will have talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President of the State of Israel Reuven Rivlin. Four Hungarian government ministers will be included in Mr. Orbán’s delegation.
Deputy State Secretary Dr. Ernő Schaller-Baross welcomed the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Deputy Director for EU Exit Strategy Mr. Theo Rycroft for a working lunch on Friday, 13th of July.