On 2 June 2016, Deputy State Secretary Kristóf Altusz received in his office Deputy State Secretary for EU Affairs David Brozina from the Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Government expects the migrants who attempted to break out of the Kiskunhalas closed reception centre to observe the laws of Hungary, János Lázár, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said at the press conference Governmentinfo 52.
At the Egyptian-Hungarian business forum held in Cairo on Wednesday evening, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, in Egypt on an official visit, urged the implementation of major joint investments and “flagship projects”.
At the Cairo office of the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met the relatives of Coptic Christian men executed in Libya. He expressed his condolences to the family members present and gave them gift packages.
On his visit to the Egyptian capital of Cairo, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has discussed Egyptian-Hungarian relations and European politics with Ahmed el-Tayeb, Grand Imam of the al-Azhar Mosque, the spiritual centre of the Sunni Islam world.
“Hungary is a leading supporter of OECD efforts to make international trade and investment more flexible, liberal and free of restrictions, and at the same time is calling for the rational and conditional application of development funding to enable developing countries to eliminate the causes of global challenges that place migration pressure on the European Union”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó in the recess of the Paris-based development organisation’s annual Ministerial Council Meeting (MCM) on Thursday.
The rapid and balanced development of Hungarian-Egyptian relations is in the best interest of both countries. By the end of 2014, Egypt became Hungary’s largest export market in the Arab world, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said at a business forum organized for Hungarian and Egyptian enterprises in Cairo. As member of the delegation headed by PM Viktor Orbán, Mihály Varga Minister held bilateral talks with Egypt’s Finance Minister Amr El-Garhy.
In an interview with television channel Dunaújváros Televízió on Tuesday, Viktor Orbán said that the government agreement with Dunaújváros can be divided into three parts.
György Bakondi, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, has told public television channel M1 that it seems that negotiations in Kiskunhalas have been successful. No violence is expected in the secure reception centre, where on Wednesday around three hundred detained migrants protested for better conditions and faster administration of their cases, threatening to break out from the camp.
During his official visit to Egypt, after talks in Cairo with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Wednesday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that a major question for the future is how civilisations with historic roots such as Islam and Christianity will be able to live together.