In Budapest on Tuesday, in a press statement after the summit between the prime ministers of the Visegrád Four (V4) and President of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that his fellow prime ministers had told the President Sisi of their recognition and appreciation of his work for stability in his country’s region.
On Monday, at the Hungary-Egypt Business Forum organised by the Hungarian National Trading House to coincide with the visit to Budapest of President of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán called for a breakthrough in Hungarian-Egyptian economic relations.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó has informed Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that Hungary has an interest in the normalisation of American-Russian relations.
The Government of Hungary condemns in the strongest terms the ballistic missile test conducted by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on July 4, 2017.
“The facts prove that the Hungarian Government made the right decision when it based its Russia policy on common sense and mutual respect”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian news agency MTI by telephone from Moscow on Tuesday.
“Following some one and a half years of preparation, Hungary’s law enforcement and security services are now ready to provide suitable security for the major sports events to be held in Hungary this summer”, the Ministry of Interior’s Deputy State Secretary, Zsolt Csampa said at a press conference in Budapest.
In the Parliament Building on Monday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán had talks with President of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who is in Budapest on an official visit. After their meeting Mr. Orbán described the security, military and economic stability of Egypt as a key interest for Hungary.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said that the European Union needs Turkey.
In Ankara on Friday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that it is in Hungary’s best interests for Turkey to be a strong and stable country, with a clear leadership which is able to enforce its will.
After an exceptional memorial ceremony for former Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl in Strasbourg on Saturday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told public service television news channel M1 that the late conservative leader represented Christianity and a Europe of nations.