Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Khaltmaa Battulga, the President of Mongolia had talks in Budapest on Tuesday about long-standing Hungarian-Mongolian economic and cultural cooperation, Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief informed the Hungarian news agency MTI.
The Government of Hungary condemns, in the strongest terms, the ballistic missile launch conducted by North Korea today. The DPRK, with this missile test, has repeatedly and flagrantly violated the relevant UN Security Council resolutions and has continuously rejected cooperation with the international community. Hungary and its allies condemn the launch of the missile, which again breached the air space of Japan.
The 2017 Judo World Championships began in Budapest on Monday, 28 August with a spectacular opening ceremony at the László Papp Sport Arena.
“In view of the increasing number of terrorist attacks in Western Europe, Hungarian law enforcement authorities must also identify, and if needed weed out, suspected terrorists living in the European Union”, the Ministry of Justice’s Parliamentary State Secretary and Deputy Minister Pál Völner said in an interview for Hungarian daily Magyar Idők (Hungarian Times).
“After a summer like this there can be no question that Budapest is one of the world’s sports capitals”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told reporters, referring to the Judo World Championships and the World Aquatic Championships, following a meting between Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is on a visit to Budapest to attend the Judo World Championships.
Several people lost their lives, tens of thousands have been forced to leave their homes and about three hundred thousand inhabitants have been left without electricity in the wake of category 4 Hurricane Harvey that made landfall in Texas early morning on Saturday, 26 August. Due to the ensuing floods, 62 counties are currently considered disaster-stricken areas. The city of Houston has been also gravely affected. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade offers its condolences to the families of the victims and wishes the injured a swift recovery.
György Bakondi, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister told Hungarian television channel M1 that migrants are continuously attempting to cross the border from both the Serbian and the Romanian side.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will be meeting with world political and sports leaders travelling to Budapest to attend the Judo World Championships”, the Prime Minster’s Press Chief informed the kormany.hu government news portal.
“Europe’s security situation can in fact be improved; we will never accept the fact that Europe must live under the threat of terrorism”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in Budapest on Monday at the autumn meeting of diplomatic mission leaders.
There is a pro-immigration Dutch Government, whose standpoint is represented by the pro-immigration Dutch Ambassador, and there is a pro-security Hungarian Government that has made it clear that it will not allow illegal immigrants onto its own territory and would not like illegal immigrants to flood Europe”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Hungarian M1 television’s Monday morning current affairs program.