Diplomacy

US Ambassador to Hungary David Pressman "behaves as if Hungary were the 51st state of the United Sates and he were its governor," Tamas Menczer, the foreign affairs state secretary, told public television on Monday.

Gergely Gulyas, the head of the Prime Minister's Office, attended a conference marking the 50th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations between Hungary and Germany, in Budapest on Monday.

Maintaining "Hungarian-Polish brotherhood" is a central element of Hungary's foreign policy strategy, even if the two countries may disagree on certain issues, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Monday.

Economic Development Minister Marton Nagy held talks with Radovan Viskovic, the prime minister of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia, in his office on Thursday, his ministry said.

Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto, on a visit to Belgium, on Wednesday noted similarities between the politics of Hungary's government and of Flanders, Belgium's strongest region.

Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto on Wednesday welcomed the appointment of former Luxembourg premier Xavier Bettel as the grand duchy's new minister of foreign and European affairs.

President Katalin Novak, at a meeting with Pope Tawadros II in Cairo on Tuesday asked the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria to do everything possible in the interest of urgent peace.

President Katalin Novak discussed illegal migration, the importance of peace and economic issues, among other topics, with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in Cairo on Monday.

President Katalin Novak will travel to Egypt for an official visit on November 27 and later on December 1 give an address at the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in the United Arab Emirates, the Sandor Palace told MTI on Sunday.

Peter Szijjarto, the minister of foreign affairs and trade, on Friday met Mehmet Kacir, Turkiye's minister for industry and technology, and discussed the most important issues of bilateral economic cooperation with him.