Diplomacy

Representatives of Hungary have signed a foreign policy cooperation action plan with Bosnia and Herzegovina aimed at starting early talks on the latter country's European integration, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in Sarajevo on Friday.

Peter Szijjarto, the foreign minister, has called on the European Union to cease "threatening and blackmailing" the Western Balkans to ensure a successful integration policy.

Hungary supports Moldova's European Union membership unconditionally, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said after talks with Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean in Budapest on Thursday.

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has accepted Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's invitation to meet in Budapest to discuss Sweden's NATO accession and other bilateral matters, and discussion, he added, may also take place in Brussels next week.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has talked by phone with British foreign secretary of state, David Cameron, the prime minister's press chief said on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has invited Ulf Kristersson, his Swedish counterpart, to visit to Hungary, the PM's press office said on Tuesday.

Hungary is a sovereign country, "regardless of whether [Polish Prime Minister] Donald Tusk likes it or not", Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Monday, criticising Tusk's recent remarks on the Hungarian government's stance on the war in Ukraine.

In Asia's "unstoppable rise", Hungary spies "huge opportunities in this new world economic order", Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said after meeting Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh in his office, where the delegations of the two countries signed several cooperation agreements.

Vietnam's flourishing economy offers great opportunities to export- and investment-oriented Hungary, the minister of foreign affairs and trade said after talks with Vietnamese counterpart Bui Thanh Son in Budapest on Thursday.

When it comes to combatting illegal migration and supporting the EU accession bids of Western Balkan countries, Hungary counts on Austria's support, Peter Szijjarto, the foreign minister, told Hungarian public media in Vienna after talks with Austrian counterpart Alexander Schallenberg.