Government official discusses strengthening bilateral cooperation in Washington

He told MTI Hungary and the United States was bonded by a several-decades military alliance and friendship.

“Even though there are important issues we often see differently, it is important, even essential, for us to discuss those issues in earnest and in a calm tone as close allies and friends,” Magyar said, adding that his visit had served that purpose.

He highlighted his talks with Jim O’Brien, the State Department’s Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, which focused on the situation in Ukraine and the assessment of Hungary’s peace mission. Magyar noted a difference in the two countries’ approach to “this quite complex and difficult issues”, but they understood each other’s motivation and frameworks of interpretation, and would continue to seek common points of understanding, he added.

Magyar also said he had talks with representatives in the business sector with the aim of strengthening the presence of American companies in Hungary and bringing new investments to various branches of industry.

Magyar noted his talks with Maria Korsnick, the president and chief executive of the Nuclear Energy Institute, where they discussed technologies under development that Hungary as “a friend of nuclear energy” might consider interesting.