Prime Minister Viktor Orbán expressed his condolences in a letter to Egyptian President Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi over the ruthless killing of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians committed by the jihadist organisation Islamic State.
The Prime Ministers and Foreign Affairs Ministers of Hungary and Serbia held an informal colloquium at Monday night in Subotica, Serbia – the Prime Minister’s press chief Bertalan Havasi announced. Viktor Orbán, Aleksandar Vucic, Péter Szijjártó and Ivica Dacic discussed the energy security of the region and the further development of economic cooperation between the two countries.
“Even a fragile peace is better than war,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in his Friday interview with public broadcaster Kossuth Rádió, referring to Thursday’s Minsk agreement aimed at resolving the Ukrainian conflict.
At the meeting of the European Council, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán thanked in the name of Hungary to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande for their efforts to achieve a ceasefire agreement and peace – press chief of the Prime Minister Bertalan Havasi said.
The Prime Minister’s press chief Bertalan Havasi announced that the package of measures accepted in Minsk on Thursday was the main topic of the latest of the meetings of Visegrád Group prime ministers which regularly precede EU summits.
Arriving at an unofficial summit of EU prime ministers, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that there is a good chance of directing events towards a reasonable solution in Ukraine.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán welcomed Poland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Grzegorz Schetyna on Wednesday in Budapest and they have discussed the current situation of the Russian-Ukrainian crisis and issues of the Central European cooperation – the Prime Minister’s press chief Bertalan Havasi announced.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will make a short working visit to Ukraine – the Prime Minister’s press chief Bertalan Havasi announced.
Hungarian-Serbian relations have not been this good and this balanced for a very long time – Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Serbian Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic stated at their meeting in Budapest on Wednesday.
At a joint press conference held with Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that since all gas pipeline projects bypassing Ukraine have failed in succession, the importance of Georgia’s role in Europe has increased significantly.