Bertalan Havasi Press Chief of the Prime Minister has informed Hungarian news agency MTI that on Wednesday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received President of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians István Pásztor, with whom he discussed issues of national strategy in addition to the results of the Hungarian-funded economic development programme.
Bertalan Havasi, Press Chief of the Prime Minister has told Hungarian news agency MTI that in the Parliament Building on Tuesday afternoon, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Ibrahim Al Sheikh Speaker of the Shura Council of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
In Budapest on Tuesday, in a press statement after the summit between the prime ministers of the Visegrád Four (V4) and President of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that his fellow prime ministers had told the President Sisi of their recognition and appreciation of his work for stability in his country’s region.
On Monday, at the Hungary-Egypt Business Forum organised by the Hungarian National Trading House to coincide with the visit to Budapest of President of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán called for a breakthrough in Hungarian-Egyptian economic relations.
In the Parliament Building on Monday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán had talks with President of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who is in Budapest on an official visit. After their meeting Mr. Orbán described the security, military and economic stability of Egypt as a key interest for Hungary.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said that the European Union needs Turkey.
In Ankara on Friday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that it is in Hungary’s best interests for Turkey to be a strong and stable country, with a clear leadership which is able to enforce its will.
After an exceptional memorial ceremony for former Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl in Strasbourg on Saturday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told public service television news channel M1 that the late conservative leader represented Christianity and a Europe of nations.
Speaking at the opening of the Turkish-Hungarian Business Forum in Ankara on Friday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that Hungary stands by its friends, and is on Turkey’s side.
Bertalan Havasi Press Chief of the Prime Minister has told Hungarian news agency MTI that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is travelling to Ankara on Thursday to take part in a high-level strategic council meeting together with his ministers; this is to all intents and purposes a Hungarian-Turkish “cabinet meeting”, an inter-governmental summit.