"The opening and re-occupancy of the Ludovika main building by the National University of Public Service has meant that the government of Hungary is committed to quality”, Minister of Defence Csaba Hende said on Tuesday, June 24 at a ceremony where the main building of the National University of Public Service Ludovika Campus was declared a historical memorial site and a memorial column was unveiled as its symbol.
“Cooperation and the sharing of experiences and methods have outstanding importance in the development of military medicine too”, Minister of Defence Csaba Hende said at the official opening of the “Force Health Protection NATO Conference 2014” in Budapest on Tuesday.
"Hungary has been contributing troops to NATO-led operations in Afghanistan for ten years now. The 90 Hungarian soldiers who have just returned home have fulfilled this commitment on the highest professional level in Afghanistan, meeting international standards", Tamás Vargha said in Budapest on Wednesday, June 18.
The crisis in Ukraine has highlighted that security cannot be taken for granted and that Hungary needs a strong armed forces, Minister of Defence Csaba Hende told Hungarian News Agency MTI in an interview.
We have seen signs of the withdrawal of Russian troops, but there are still tens of thousands of them along the Ukrainian borders, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in a doorstep statement to the press in Brussels on Tuesday, June 3, in advance of the meeting of the Defence Ministers of member states. The two-day meeting of NATO Defence Ministers, which started on Tuesday in Brussels, is focusing on the situation in Ukraine.