“Hungary and Estonia have always been stable, strong and committed allies to each other”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said following negotiations with his Estonian counterpart in Budapest on Wednesday.
Hungary has acknowledged the responsibility of the Hungarian Government in office at the time for the Holocaust at the highest level and on a number of occasions, and has therefore announced zero tolerance today against every form of Holocaust denial and hate speech, Szabolcs Takács said in Zagreb. Mr Takács directed the work of the recently closed Hungarian Chairmanship of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) as a ministerial commissioner.
Following a meeting with Director for European Affairs at the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Per Fabricius Andersen in Copenhagen, Deputy State Secretary for EU and US relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Kristóf Altusz said that establishing peace in Syria is crucial to achieving results in halting migration flows to Europe.
In a special message, Prime Minister Orbán Viktor sent greetings to Hungarian communities beyond the borders to mark 15 March, the Hungarian national day.
At a conference of Hungarian local governments, Minister of Interior Sándor Pintér said that Hungary’s borders are safe. Mayors attending the conference organised by the Association of Hungarian Cities with County Rank (MJVSZ) accepted a political statement against mandatory resettlement quotas.
Europe must relay a clear message to migrants and the networks of criminals and people smugglers behind them to the effect that a defence line has been set up on the external borders of Europe which cannot just be broken through at a moment’s notice, Szabolcs Takács told journalists on Tuesday.
Freedom today means the right to choose, the possibility to make our own choices, and we, Hungarians must defend this right, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office stated on Tuesday in Hódmezővásárhely.
Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén held talks regarding the issues of the migrant crisis and the development of Hungarian-Jordanian relations during his visit to Jordan, Bertalan Havasi, the Deputy State Secretary heading the Press Office of the Prime Minister told kormany.hu.
We can only survive by uniting our forces, Szabolcs Takács, State Secretary for EU Affairs at the Prime Minister’s Office stressed in his speech delivered on Friday in Zagreb on the occasion of the 15 March celebrations. In his speech he thanked the small Hungarian community living in Croatia for its perseverance and Zagreb for taking care of this part of the Hungarian nation.
During a ceremony held in Brussels on Monday, 14 March to mark the anniversary of the outbreak of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, Minister of Defence Dr. István Simicskó stated that “Freedom comes at a huge price, it must be fought for and then preserved; migration may radically rewrite European history if we do not preserve our freedom and culture”.