Dr Csaba Latorcai, Deputy State Secretary for Priority Social Affairs at the Prime Minister’s Office delivered a speech at the Uránia National Movie Theatre on the Memorial Day of the Victims of the Hungarian Holocaust. This year the memorial day fell on Saturday, and bearing in mind the laws of the Jewish faith, the commemoration was held today. The film Dawn Fever by Péter Gárdos was shown in the cinema as part of the event.
Dr Csaba Latorcai, Deputy State Secretary for Priority Social Affairs at the Prime Minister’s Office attended and delivered a speech at the commemoration held in the Páva utca Holocaust Memorial Centre on the occasion of the Memorial Day of the Victims of the Hungarian Holocaust.
Hungary’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade was shocked and saddened to learn of the earthquakes which hit the island of Kyushu on 14 April, and which have killed at least 42 people.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has learnt with regret of the powerful earthquake in Ecuador on 16 April 2016, which has caused the death of dozens of people in several regions.
In addition to paying our last respects, we are here to state that we do not want hatred and war, but we want peace and atonement, the Minister of Human Capacities said at the interment at the Kozma utca Jewish cemetery on Friday of the human remains found at Margaret Bridge in Budapest.
“Europe hasn’t been subject to such serious security challenges since the Second World War and a unified and determined response must be provided to them”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Friday in Bratislava at Central Europe’s most important foreign and security policy forum, the GLOBSEC 2016 conference.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has proposed a ten-point action plan for protecting the external borders of the European Union and free movement within the EU.
“Economic relations between the South African Republic and Hungary have become much more intensive in recent months and concrete projects are already under realisation”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Parliamentary State Secretary said on Thursday in Budapest at a press conference following the second meeting of the Hungarian-South African Joint Committee for Economic Cooperation.
At a ceremony held at the Hungarian embassy in Lisbon, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán presented the Middle Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit to Portuguese politician and former People’s Party MEP Mário David, for his actions in the advancement of Hungarian interests.
Minister of Defence István Simicskó is also attending the GLOBSEC 2016 security policy conference in Bratislava on 15 April. The main topics of the three-day event are the migrant crisis, the crisis in the Middle East, the Islamic State and the Syrian war, as well as the effects of Russia’s intervention in Ukraine and Syria and the lead-up to the NATO Summit in Warsaw.