Three persons have to date indicated at the duty telephone number of the Hungarian Embassy in Berlin that they cannot locate their relatives, Tamás Menczer, Press Chief of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said early morning on Tuesday on the public service television news channel M1.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó has sent a letter of condolence to German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier following Monday evening’s attack in Berlin.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade was deeply shocked to receive the news of the armed attack on a Muslim mosque in Zurich on Monday evening.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has sent a letter of condolence to President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, following the death of Russia’s Ambassador to Ankara in an armed attack in the Turkish capital.
Bertalan Havasi, Minister of State heading the Press Office of the Prime Minister, has told kormany.hu that, following the attack in Berlin, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has conveyed his shock and condolences to German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
“It is with shock that we received the news of the attack against the Russian Ambassador to Ankara, which we condemn in the strongest possible terms”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian news agency MTI on Monday after Ambassador Andrey Karlov was killed in a terrorist attack in the Turkish capital on Monday evening.
“Hungary and Latvia have a strong alliance and are in agreement on many important issues concerning the future of the European Union”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in Budapest following talks with his Latvian counterpart.
Hungary condemns in the strongest terms the terrorist attack in the Jordanian city of Karak on 18 December, which claimed the lives of Jordanian security personnel, civilians and a foreign tourist, and left many others wounded.
“Brussels should stop intensifying European integration and protect the results achieved so far instead of continuously creating newer and newer institutions to try and solve the problems”, Minister of Justice László Trócsányi said on Karc FM radio station’s Álláspont (“Standpoint”) show.
“Europe’s Nation States have begun to defend themselves against illegal immigration”, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said on M1 Hungarian television’s Friday evening current affairs program.