Minister of State for Energy Affairs Dr. András Aradszki of the Ministry of National Development represented Hungary at the 3rd Jordan International Energy Summit held in Amman on 2-3 April 2017.
The legal border closure which took effect on Tuesday is working well and without problems, the first experiences are positive, and migrants have disappeared from the Serbian side of the border, the Minister of State at the Ministry of Interior told the Hungarian news agency MTI.
Hungary is helping Ukraine in the EU integration processes, and is a committed supporter of the granting of visa-free travel and the approval of the free trade agreement planned to be entered into with the European Union, but will not allow the Hungarian national community to be placed at a disadvantage, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó stated after the one-day Brussels meeting of the Foreign Ministers of NATO Member States in an interview given to the Hungarian news agency MTI on Friday.
The Hungarian Government regards Kazakhstan as a strategic partner, therefore it is of vital importance that a direct flight be launched to connect the two countries, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga told at a press conference where WizzAir’s new Budapest-Astana direct flight was announced.
“The Hungarian Government expects the EU to take legal action in the interests of changing practices that result on differences in food quality”, the Ministry of Agriculture’s Minister of State for Food Chain Supervision said on Hungarian public television M1 on Monday.
“The national consultation has begun; the first questionnaires were delivered to households on Friday”, Minister of State for Government Communication Bence Tuzson from the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister said at a press conference on Friday.
“Policies cannot be made to succeed without the support of the people”, Minister of State for Government Communication Bence Tuzson said with regard to the national consultation on Kossuth Radio’s “Sunday Paper” program.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade was shocked to learn about the consequences of the landslide that hit Mocoa, capital of the department of Putumayo in South-West Colombia, on the 1st of April, 2017, and which has already claimed hundreds of lives.
The Government of Hungary found it with surprise that the Department of State of the United States released a press statement that is based on factual errors.
The Prime Minister’s Press Chief, Bertalan Havasi, has told Hungarian news agency MTI that on Friday morning Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held talks with President of the Cultural Alliance of Hungarians in Transcarpathia (KMKSz) László Brenzovics. The two men agreed that the dispute over the issue of dual citizenship for Hungarians living in Ukraine could soon be resolved.