The United States may continue to rely on Hungary in the fight against terrorism and the reinforcement of the European leg of NATO, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó stated in an interview given to the Hungarian news agency MTI by telephone on Thursday after he had talks on the telephone with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
Hungary provides diplomatic and economic support for the development of Bosnia and Herzegovina that may be summed up in six points, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told the Hungarian news agency MTI by telephone on the occasion of his visit to Sarajevo on Thursday.
Budapest, 28. Februar 2017
The Government is extending the state of crisis caused by mass immigration with respect to the entire territory of the country by six months, János Lázár, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said at the press conference Governmentinfo 80 which he held jointly with Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács.
At their summit held in Warsaw on Thursday the prime ministers of the Visegrád countries (V4) adopted a declaration on the future of the EU. At a press conference held after the summit Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that Hungary fully and wholeheartedly supports the document.
“2017 is the year of connections for Hungarian-Slovakian relations”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Wednesday in Bratislava, where an agreement was concluded on the construction of a cross-border electricity line between Slovakia and Hungary.
“The number of states that have changed their earlier standpoints on the issue of mass migration has increased, but despite this we are still in opposition of the mainstream and the Hungarian standpoint is under attack in several instances”, György Bakondi said on Kossuth Radio’s “180 Minutes” program.
The 1st of March in 2017 marks the first celebration of ASEM Day, an initiative launched by the 53 members of the Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM) at their last Summit in 2016.
The prolongation of the state of crisis due to mass immigration in the territory of Hungary is justified. The past six months demonstrate that we have succeeded in protecting the Hungarian people’s security with the legal rules applied on the basis of the state of crisis, Károly Kontrát, Minister of State at the Ministry of Interior stated at the meeting of the Defence and Police Committee of Parliament.
The Paks II project may be granted both the environmental licence and the site licence at second instance this spring, Attila Aszódi, the Government Commissioner responsible for the maintenance of the capacity of the Paks atomic power station said at a conference.