Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén had talks with the three-member Collegium of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Speaker of the House of Representatives Mladen Bosic, and Deputy Speakers Sefik Dzaferovic and Borjana Kristo – whose posts rotate every eight months – in the Parliament Building in Budapest, Bertalan Havasi, the Deputy State Secretary heading the Press Office of the Prime Minister informed kormany.hu.
The delegation was also joined by Aleksandar Dragicevic, Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Hungary.
During the course of the meeting, Mr Semjén informed the guests who arrived in Budapest on an official visit that the universities of Hungary are awaiting the applications of students from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Hungarian State additionally provides fifty higher education scholarship grants for them annually.
The Hungarian Deputy Prime Minister said: it is important that an air service connecting the two capitals, Sarajevo and Budapest, together should be launched within the shortest possible time.
He further commended to the delegation’s attention the small minority of a few hundred Hungarians living in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the head of the Press Office of the Prime Minister said.