Events and programmes commemorating the Hungarian revolution of 1848/49 and freedom fight will be held this weekend across the country and abroad.
“NATO’s crisis management exercise in 2015 (CMX 15) focuses on dealing with refugee issues and a related outbreak of an epidemic as well as on countering a cyber-attack” Minister of State for Public Administration of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) István Dankó said at the press conference of the exercise.
“As a committed supporter, Hungary is helping to build peace in the Balkans, which can only be achieved through Euro-Atlantic integration”, the Minister of Defence stated on Friday, February 27 during the homecoming ceremony of the Hungarian Defence Forces KFOR-11 contingent in Tata.
Between 22 February and 3 March, altogether more than 750 Hungarian and American troops are participating in a joint tactical-level exercise, which is combined with airdrop operations and live firing.
“Croatia and Hungary agree that the stability of the Western Balkans is important”, Minister of Defence Csaba Hende told Hungarian News Agency MTI on Thursday, after holding discussions in Zagreb with his Croatian counterpart, Minister of Defence Ante Kotromanovic.
“Hungary continues to share the German position on the handling of the crisis in Ukraine” – Csaba Hende told Hungarian News Agency MTI in a break of the 51st international Munich Security Conference (MSC).
The Hungarian defence minister has proposed that NATO should set up a 40-strong integration unit in Hungary.
Minister of Defence Csaba Hende received the experts of the US Joint Special Operations University on a courtesy call. The Minister of Defence emphasized that the special operations forces (SOF) capability plays an important role in the Hungarian Defence Forces and is at once a highlighted field of American–Hungarian military-to-military relations.
Hungary is hosting the Capable Logistician 2015 exercise, this year’s biggest trial of the logisticians of NATO member countries and partner nations, NATO commands and other countries involved in practical cooperation.
“The security situation is developing unfavourably along NATO’s Eastern borders, Russia is keeping Ukraine under pressure, and continues to support the separatist forces” – these are the conclusions drawn at the two-day meeting of NATO Chiefs of Defence in Brussels, which ended on Thursday, 22 January, Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Dr. Tibor Benkő told Hungarian News Agency MTI.