Prime Minister Viktor Orbán offered his most sincere condolences to Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, President of Egypt, and Pope Tawadros II, leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, on account of the bombings committed in the Church of St. George in the city in Tanta in Egypt on Sunday.
Bertalan Havasi, head of the Press Office of the Prime Minister, has informed kormany.hu that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has written a letter to Swedish prime minister Stefan Löfven in relation to Friday afternoon’s attack in Stockholm. On behalf of the Hungarian people Mr. Orbán offered his condolences to the families of the victims and wished swift recovery to those injured.
At the inauguration ceremony of the Apollo Tyres factory in Gyöngyöshalász on Friday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that Hungary’s goal is to remain Central Europe’s engine of production, with the Indian tyre company being one of the cylinders in this engine.
On Monday evening Head of the Press Office of the Prime Minister, Bertalan Havasi, informed kormany.hu that in a letter to President of Russia Vladimir Putin, Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán had expressed his shock at the bomb attack in Saint Petersburg.
On Monday in the Parliament Building in Budapest, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told reporters that “The Hungarian Cabinet and the Government of the United States of America will sit down to negotiate the matter of the Central European University”.
Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s Press Chief, has told kormany.hu that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán wrote a letter of congratulations to Aleksandar Vučić on his landslide victory in the Serbian presidential election. Mr. Orbán also expressed the hope that the successful Serbian-Hungarian strategic relations witnessed in recent years will continue to develop at the same pace.
The Prime Minister’s Press Chief, Bertalan Havasi, has told Hungarian news agency MTI that on Friday morning Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held talks with President of the Cultural Alliance of Hungarians in Transcarpathia (KMKSz) László Brenzovics. The two men agreed that the dispute over the issue of dual citizenship for Hungarians living in Ukraine could soon be resolved.
On Kossuth Radio’s programme “180 Minutes”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that, on the issue of immigration, right from the beginning Hungary has asked the right questions and has given the right answers, while the West is lagging behind by a year or two.
On Kossuth Radio’s “180 Minutes” programme on Friday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that “The future of the ‘Soros university’ depends on American-Hungarian intergovernmental negotiations”.
Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief, has informed kormany.hu that while in Malta for the European People’s Party’s congress, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held talks with former Italian prime minister and Forza Italia party leader Silvio Berlusconi.