The Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade hosted the conference "Asean Community – Deepening Integration Brings Expanding Opportunities for Trade and Growth” on 31 March 2016. Deputy State Secretary for southerly opening Szilveszter Bus delivered the opening speech at the event. Surin Pitsuwan, former Secretary-General of ASEAN and former Thai Foreign Minister spoke as the guest of honour of the conference.
As turning towards Asia in Hungarian politics has further increased the significance of relations with Korea for Hungary, so has the significance of the Central-European region increased for Korea in recent years: within the European continent, our region has entered the focus of the building of Korean political and economic relations, Szilveszter Bus, Deputy State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said on Thursday in Budapest.
In Argentina there is demand primarily for Hungarian agricultural technologies and processed foodstuffs, but there are ample export opportunities for the products of the pharmaceutical industry and the automotive industry as well, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said, who had talks with his Argentinian counterpart Foreign Relations Minister Susana Malcorra on Thursday morning, local time, before the official opening of the international summit on nuclear security held in Washington.
On Thursday, Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács told public television channel M1 that the opposition parties also share the responsibility for ensuring that Hungary is adequately prepared for the possibility of a terrorist attack.
On Thursday Bertalan Havasi, the head of the Prime Minister’s Press Office, informed kormany.hu that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who is currently in Washington, had written to the family of Imre Kertész to express his condolences on the death of the Nobel laureate.
Representatives of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the National Research, Development and Innovation Office, the Ministry of Human Resources and the Ministry for National Economy signed a partnership agreement designed to help achieve strategic goals of the Irinyi Plan.
The deficit of the central sub sector of the state budget closed the year 2015 much better than expected, with 1.9 percent of GDP, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said, commenting on the latest fiscal data released by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH) earlier today. Another key indicator, the general government debt-to-GDP ratio also fell, to 75.3 percent.
“The Hungarian agrarian industry fully conforms to the strategic goals of industrial development, for example Hungarian raw materials are available for its activities, as is the technical and technological knowledge and expertise required for its development”, the Minister of State for Economic Development and Regulation at the Ministry for National Economy said on Thursday in Budapest.
The Government wants Hungary’s tourism sector growth to remain balanced, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga told at the event entitled “Hungary, á la carte”, organized by Hungarian Tourism Ltd.
The Islamic State has targeted Hungary, János Lázár, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said at his press conference on Thursday, adding: it is the Government’s utmost responsibility to guarantee the safety of every Hungarian.