On Monday afternoon, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán conducted talks with Brazil’s elected president Jair Bolsonaro by telephone, Bertalan Havasi, the Deputy State Secretary heading the Press Office of the Prime Minister informed the press.

The Prime Minister congratulated the new Brazilian president who will begin his term in office in January. He said he observed with great appreciation that the values that Hungary holds precious have also prevailed in Brazil through Jair Bolsonaro’s victory.

Mr Orbán added that Hungary is ready to raise relations between the two countries to a new level.

At the end of the telephone conversation, Jair Bolsonaro invited the Hungarian Prime Minister to his presidential inauguration ceremony, the press chief said.

(MTI/kormany.hu)