Diplomacy

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán On Monday received Mikayil Jabbarov, Azerbaijan's economy minister, in his office, with talks centred on energy cooperation, the PM's press chief said in a statement.

Cooperation between Hungary and Algeria is key, as the two countries hold similar positions on illegal migration and the war in Ukraine, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said after meeting his Algerian counterpart on Friday.

Kyrgyzstan and Hungary are strengthening cooperation in seed grain production, agriculture and animal breeding, Agriculture Minister Istvan Nagy said on Tuesday, after talks with his Kyrgyz counterpart Askarbek Djanybekov.

Hungary is a reliable ally that keeps its promises and "always says what it thinks", President Katalin Novak told ambassadors at an annual conference for Hungarian diplomats at the foreign ministry on Monday.

Hungary's foreign policy will "stay Hungarian and sovereign," Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told ambassadors on Monday, adding that the Hungarian government "will not give in to any international pressure" and keep national interests in its focus.

Opposition Jobbik-Conservatives has called on Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto to summon Russia's ambassador over a textbook recently published in Russia, in which Hungary's 1956 anti-Soviet revolution is described as a "fascist revolt".

Gyorgy Matolcsy, the governor of the National Bank of Hungary (NBH), on Tuesday met David Pressmann, the US ambassador to Hungary, to discuss economic, trade and cultural ties between the two countries, NBH said.

Hungary and Qatar have agreed on elevating their cooperation to a strategic level with the aim of seeking solutions to the greatest challenges of the era together, Peter Szijjarto, the minister of foreign affairs and trade, said on Monday.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held talks with former Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz at his office in Budapest on Monday, the prime minister's press chief said.

On August 19, President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev left for Budapest on a working visit at the invitation of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.