“It is time to apply the strongest possible measures in defence of the Hungarian minority in Transcarpathia”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared on Hungarian M1 television’s Tuesday morning current affairs program.
Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog held bilateral talks with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and the Health Ministers of Poland, Romania and Slovakia on the sidelines of the 67th session of the World Health Organisation’s Regional Committee for Europe in Budapest.
In the category Theme Development, the Hungarian pavilion was selected as the second best after that of Switzerland by an international independent panel of nine international experts from the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), which had evaluated some 140 exhibitors of the Expo in a two-step process.
Bertalan Havasi, Press Chief of the Prime Minister, has told kormany.hu that in the Parliament Building on Monday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO).
On the opening day of the four-day Budapest meeting of the Regional Committee for Europe of the World Health Organization (WHO), Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that while the European demographic problem calls for an urgent response, the issue of population decline must be resolved through the reinforcement of family policy, rather than through migration.
The article published in the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) which claims that an agreement is soon to be reached with respect to the distribution of refugees is „no more than German electioneering hot air”, Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács told the Hungarian news agency MTI on Monday.
The Prime Minister’s Press Chief has informed the kormany.hu government news portal that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and László Brenzovics, President of the Cultural Union of Hungarians in Transcarpathia (KMKSZ), met in Hungary’s Parliament Building on Monday to discuss Ukraine’s new Education Act, “which is having a harmful effect on Ukrainian-Hungarian relations and runs counter to Ukraine’s international commitments”.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó also reacted to statements made over the weekend by pro-immigration politicians. “It doesn't matter what international pressure they attempt to put on Hungary, the Hungarian Government will not change its immigration policy, he said. The Government continues to view illegal immigration and the introduction of mandatory resettlement quotas as a bad and dangerous thing.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó held talks with President of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (RMDSZ) Hunor Kelemen and Archbishop of Alba Iulia György Jakubinyi on the issue of the Catholic Secondary School in Marosvásárhely (Târgu Mureș).
“Our duty is to protect the Hungarian people, whether they live in Hungary, across the border, or thousands of kilometres away”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared at a press conference in Budapest on Monday.