Deputy State Secretary for International Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Ádám Zoltán Kovács gave a speech at a high-level segment of the United Nations Human Righty Council’s (UNHCR) 31st session in Geneva.
On 2 March, a daylong conference entitled “Migration – Conflict or Cooperation?” was organized in Stefánia Palace, Budapest by the Scientific Research Centre of the General Staff of the Hungarian Defence Forces and the Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade. The patron of the conference is Minister of Defence Dr. István Simicskó.
This strategy aims to generate the driving force required for long-term economic growth, Minister of National Economy Mihály Varga told a press conference organized to present the new programme. Under the Plan, Hungary is to become one of the EU countries with the most highly developed industrial sectors by 2020.
There are enormous reserves in Roma culture and history, the Minister of Human Capacities said on Tuesday in Budapest at the cultural event held in remembrance of the Roma Holocaust.
On Monday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and President of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (RMDSZ) Hunor Kelemen held talks in Parliament. They stated that it is important that Hungarians in Transylvania emerge from the domestic affairs disputes accompanying the Romanian elections scheduled for this year in a stronger position, and that this is also reflected in their representation in local governments and in Parliament.
The Jewish community in Hungary is alive and strong; however, as regards the processing of the Holocaust, Hungary is only at the stage where the former West-Germany was in the seventies, Csaba Latorcai, Deputy State Secretary for Priority Social Affairs at the Prime Minister’s Office said on Monday at the event of the Hungarian Embassy in Berlin held to present the portrait film I’m Not Gone – The Story of Gedeon Richter.
Péter Szijjártó and the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates agreed that migration pressure on Europe and the migration crisis will not come to an end until peace is established in Syria, the fight against terrorism is successfully won and the European Union ends its policy of keeping its external borders open, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade told Hungarian news agency MTI on the first day of his trip to the Emirates.
At an ambassadors’ conference on Monday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade said that last year we had to face many unexpected challenges, but in this respect 2016 will be “even tougher”.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the situation of Europe gives it the means to halt migration to Europe, but Brussels lacks the intent to protect the continent.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán takes the view that the foreign trade results achieved so far vindicate the reform of the foreign affairs organisational system which was implemented in 2014. The Prime Minister was speaking at the customary conference for heads of missions held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, where he said that a calm and balanced homeland assists the work of ambassadors.