Minister of State for Security Policy and International Cooperation István Mikola represented Hungary at the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul on 23–24 May. Mr. Mikola chaired the plenary meeting of the summit on 23 May.
“Hungary is supporting the conclusions of Thursday’s meeting of the European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council because it includes every single Hungarian proposal”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said following the meeting or EU foreign ministers in Brussels.
Due to illness, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s engagements scheduled for today have been cancelled.
“Kazakhstan is Hungary’s most important partner in Central Asia, and in line with the two countries’ capabilities agriculture is an extremely important sector”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Parliamentary State Secretary, László Szabó, said in Budapest at the signing of the agreement on establishing a Kazakh-Hungarian Agricultural Investment Fund.
Deputy State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Kristóf Altusz paid an official visit to Oslo, where he held talks with Anniken Huitfeldt, President of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence of the Parliament of Norway (Storting). He also met his Norwegian counterpart Christian Syséle and Helge Skaara, Director General of the Department for European Affairs, and held discussions with Tove Skarstein, Special Prime Ministerial Commissioner for Migration Affairs.
“The Government and the Hungarian Conference of Catholic Bishops (MKPK) will be providing 120 million and 85 million forints in funding, respectively, towards the education of children living as refugees in the Middle East”, Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog and MPKP Chairman, Bishop András Veres announced.
With the “371 Stars” performance at the National Theatre in Budapest on Saturday night, on the Day of Courage and Roma Youth, Hungary remembered the Birkenau camp uprising and the Roma victims of the Holocaust.
The Federal Republic of Nigeria’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Khadija Bukar Abba Ibrahim paid a working visit to Budapest on 19–20 May.
“The European integration of partner countries must be accelerates in the interests of both the stability of the countries of the Eastern Partnership and Europe’s security”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in the recess of today’s meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels.
“Hungary can only support a European Union resolution that is aimed at reducing migration, but the EU’s proposal with relation to migration is more of a motivator for migration instead of being concerned about how to reduce the level of migration into Europe”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said prior to Monday’s meeting of EU foreign ministers.