Diplomacy

Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has congratulated Qin Gang on his appointment as China's new foreign minister as well as his former counterpart Wang Yi on his promotion to the Central Foreign Affairs Commission of the Chinese Communist Party, the foreign ministry said on Friday.

The security of the Western Balkans is a joint strategic interest of the UK and Hungary, Defence Minister Kristof Szalay-Bobrovniczky said after talks in London on Monday.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), with bipartisan Congressional support, is supporting new locally driven initiatives in Central Europe with the goal of strengthening democratic institutions, civil society, and independent media, "which are all pillars of resilient democratic societies", the US Embassy ...

Hungary has opened a new consulate in Brussels, which is important also because the greater the uncertainty in the world, the more important it is for the state to provide security for Hungarians at home and abroad, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in Brussels ...

Romania and Bulgaria have been working hard to protect their borders and have done a lot to rein in illegal migration, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Facebook on Friday, adding that the two countries should have been allowed to join the European Union's ...

The four member states of the Visegrad Group have all reaped tangible benefits from cooperation, which has a positive impact on the everyday life of their citizens, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in Bratislava on Tuesday.

Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Friday that it was "unacceptable" that while Hungary was making every attempt to support Ukraine, the operation of several Hungarians companies was rendered impossible in Ukraine simply because they are also present in Russia.

Fully 76 percent of Hungarians reject US interference in Hungarian domestic affairs, according to a survey published by the Szazadveg Foundation on Friday.

Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto urged "strategic calm" after a phone call with his Polish counterpart, Zbigniew Rau, on Wednesday morning after a missile hit Polish territory killing two people in the previous evening.

Speaker of Parliament Laszlo Kover held talks in Oman, focusing on developing political and economic cooperation with that country and the region, the Hungarian parliament's press office told MTI on Monday.