Diplomacy

The United States has announced sanctions on more than 50 people and entities "in order to curb Russia's and sanctioned Russian persons' access to the international financial system through the use of financial facilitators," David Pressman, the US Ambassador to Hungary, said on Wednesday.

US diplomacy has not given up on efforts to pressure Hungary into taking a pro-war position, but the government maintains the view that peace is in the common interest, the head of the Prime Minister's Office said on Wednesday.

The government is making strenuous efforts to boost economic ties with Romania, Janos Lazar, the minister of construction and transport, said after talks in Budapest on Thursday with Attila Cseke, Romania's development and public works minister.

Economic cooperation is currently the strongest pillar of Hungarian-US relations, and Hungary is counting of US companies to bolster ties between the two countries, the minister of foreign affairs and trade said in Budapest on Monday.

Ambassador Tamara Liluashvili is the first female Ambassador of Georgia to Hungary, and with her excelling business background she has plans for her four-year tenure to focus on boosting bilateral business and economic cooperation, as well as further deepening political and cultural ties between ...

Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto discussed Hungary-Russia energy cooperation with Russian Deputy Prime Minister in charge of energy affairs Alexander Novak over the phone on Tuesday.

President Katalin Novak will visit Turkiye between March 29 and 31, marking the centenary of diplomatic ties, the press directorate of the presidential office said on Tuesday.

Now that Uzbekistan has opened an embassy in Budapest, all member states of the Organisation of Turkic States have a diplomatic representation in Hungary, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Monday.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held talks with Vladimir Orlic, the president of Serbia's National Assembly, in his office on Monday, the PM's press chief said.

Ensuring peace in the Western Balkans is one of the most important security policy interests for Hungary and a trying task, a state secretary of the defence ministry said at a Hungarian army base in Kecskemet, in central Hungary, welcoming a Hungarian unit on ...