Diplomacy

President Tamas Sulyok is in Vilnius attending a summit of the Three Seas Initiative (3SI) taking place on Thursday.

Economic cooperation between Hungary and Russia is long-standing and successful, Peter Szijjarto, the minister of foreign affairs and trade, said on Facebook on Thursday.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán had talks with Andres Pastrana, head of the Christian Democrat International, in Marrakesh on Thursday, the prime minister's press office said.

A series of meetings of the Hungarian-Slovak mixed minority affairs committee was concluded in Budapest on Wednesday, Ferenc Kalmar, the committee's Hungarian co-chair, said after the event.

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto and House Speaker Laszlo Kover have congratulated Peter Pellegrini on his victory in the second round of Slovakia's presidential election.

Bosnia's Serb community can rely on Hungary's continued support as "the two nations depend on each other", Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in Banja Luka where he was presented a state award on Friday.

There are no contested political issues between Hungary and Bosnia and Herzegovina's autonomous Serbian Republic, and so nothing stands in the way of developing economic ties, Hungary's foreign minister said in Banja Luka on Friday.

The education working group set up by the Hungarian and Ukrainian governments "has met once again but failed to bring positions closer," the foreign minister said in Brussels on Thursday, adding that Hungary "insists that the rights Ukraine's Hungarian minority should be fully restored."

Hungary has reopened its embassy in Cyprus, which is a clear sign of the Hungarian government's appreciation of continuously developing bilateral ties, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in Nicosia on Tuesday.

Finance Minister Mihaly Varga has met Lan Fo'an, his Chinese counterpart, in Beijing, the finance ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.