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Peter Szijjarto, the foreign minister, told a conference on Friday that "geopolitics should have nothing to do with sports and penalising athletes for such reasons in unacceptable".

The credibility of European Union enlargement policy has been eroded by foot-dragging over the integration process of the Western Balkans, Peter Szijjarto, the foreign minister, said on Friday, adding that it was in the interest of the EU to integrate countries of the region ...

If the European Union countinues to "encourage" migration instead of bringing development programmes to Africa, Europe will be "flooded" by immigrants, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Thursday, adding that this would lead to "unforeseeable security challenges".

Hungarian soldiers have saved the lives of tourists in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Defence Ministry said on Saturday.

"NATO is in a state of war psychosis, which poses a serious risk of escalation," Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in Brussels on Thursday, adding that NATO should switch its strategy.

Hungary opposes an increase in NATO's coordination role in weapons deliveries to Ukraine and training Ukrainian soldiers, and will not participate in the planning, implementation or financing of such activities, the foreign minister said on Wednesday.

The Hungarian government has taken further steps in recent weeks "so that we can again talk about mutual trust in Hungary-Ukraine relations," the foreign minister said on Facebook late on Wednesday.

Hungary refuses to back any proposal at the upcoming meeting of NATO foreign ministers that would push NATO closer to war or turn it into an offensive alliance, Peter Szijjarto, the foreign minister, said on Wednesday.

Peter Szijjarto, the foreign minister, expressed his condolences on Wednesday to Finnish counterpart Elina Valtonen over the shooting in a school in the city of Vantaa in which a student died and others were injured.

Hungary, as president of the EU in the second half of the year, will work to promote closer ties between the European Union and the United Arab Emirates, Peter Szijjarto, the minister of foreign affairs and trade, said after meeting his UAE counterpart in ...