Diplomacy

Hungarian diplomacy always gave the right responses during the serious challenges of recent years, while Brussels failed in its reactions to crises, the foreign minister said on Friday.

Speaker of Parliament Laszlo Kover met Khalid Al Mawali, chairman of Oman's consultative Shura Council, for talks in Budapest on Friday, parliament's press office said.

Fifteen years ago Hungary ditched its one-sided and reclusive economic policy and put Hungarian interests to the fore by opening up to the East, the finance minister said in a panel discussion at the Tashkent International Investment Forum on Friday.

Sandor Lezsak, the deputy speaker of parliament, attended the 2nd annual Trans-Altai Sustainability Dialogue on Thursday and Friday, Parliament's press chief said on Saturday.

Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Friday that he had again spoken with the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak by phone on the rights of the ethnic Hungarian population in Transcarpathia, in the west of Ukraine.

Hungary and the Dominican Republic have formed "an alliance to protect their citizens against the hazards of illegal migration" in the face of "hypocritical international pressure", the foreign minister said in Santo Domingo on Thursday.

Hungary will enter into alliance with central American states including Panama to fight against the re-emergence of blocs in the world, the foreign minister said on Tuesday.

Marton Nagy, Hungary's national economy minister, has met with Robert Habeck, Germany's minister of economic affairs and climate change, as well as with state secretaries Florian Toncar and Heiko Thoms.

Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto discussed the Middle East crisis with his Russian and UAE counterparts by phone on Sunday.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held talks with Aziz Akhannouch, his Moroccan counterpart, at a working dinner in Marrakesh on Friday, the PM's press chief said.