In the Parliament Building on Thursday afternoon Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met Patriarch of the Syriac Catholic Church Moran Mor Ignatius Youssef III Yonan. In this context Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s Press Chief, informed kormany.hu that “In relation to persecuted Middle Eastern Christians also, the Hungarian government’s standpoint is that assistance must be taken there, rather than bringing the problem here”.
In Budapest on Thursday, at the ceremonial swearing-in of police officers who took part in the first phase of border guard training, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated that the intense migration pressure on the Hungarian borders will not end within the next few years, and therefore border protection continues to remain a priority national security issue.
On Hungarian M1 television’s Thursday evening current affairs programme, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said that “Increasing numbers of immigrants are moving from Belgrade towards Hungary because of disinformation from non-governmental organisations about the opening of the Hungarian border”.
The Government is engaged in talks about thirty new German corporate projects which may account for some eight thousand new jobs, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told the Hungarian public service media in Berlin on Wednesday where he will attend the business forum of the conservative German newspaper Die Welt.
“Increasing cooperation with Algeria is both an economic and security interest”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared in a telephone statement to Hungarian news agency MTI from Algiers on Tuesday.
Hungarian foreign trade closed a record year in 2016 in every respect, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó stressed at his press conference held in Budapest in response to last year’s foreign trade data for January to November released by the Central Statistical Office.
In Budakeszi, at the unveiling of a memorial bust of Gáspár Nagy, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the poet – who was awarded Kossuth and József Attila prizes, and who died ten years ago – was able to transform the fate of the nation through his poetry.
The ninth contingent of Hungarian police set off for Macedonia on Monday to help local police take action against illegal immigration along the Macedonian-Greek border. Hungary will be continuously sending monthly shifts of police to Macedonia until the end of the year.
Minister of State for Government Communication Bence Tuzson has said that unfounded news reports were released regarding the relocation of the Prime Minister’s Office to the Castle of Buda.
“The reinforcement of our lines of defence is still justified, there is a government decision to this end and the prognoses do not show any circumstance that indicates a possible reduction in the number of attempts to illegally cross the border”, György Bakondi said.