The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has condemned the recent abduction of two Christian bishops in Syria.
On Wednesday, the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe voted to put the proposal on launching a monitoring procedure against Hungary on the agenda of the next session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). The committee members supported the motion in a vote of 21 to 20. The circumstances of the Committee's decision raise serious procedural and substantial concerns.
The NATO-Russian Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Brussels on April 23 took place in a very good mood, which is a sign that the relations between the North Atlantic Alliance and Moscow are improving –Hungarian Foreign Minister János Martonyi said.
The development of Special Forces capability is a priority in the strategic plan of the Ministry of Defence for the period until 2022, Minister of Defence Csaba Hende told Maj.-Gen. Michael Repass, Commander of United States Special Operations Command Europe in Budapest.
The issue of the a new and more effective mechanism to safeguard fundamental values in Member States proposed by the foreign ministers of Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and Finland remains on the EU agenda, and the majority of Member States have expressed their support for the initiative – stated Foreign Minister János Martonyi following the meeting of the General Affairs Council on Monday.
The United States is a major player is global politics, yet the close American-European alliance remains important, especially with regard to security policy – said Parliamentary State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Zsolt Németh at a conference on US-Hungarian relations.
On the first day of the forum, the foreign ministers of the Visegrad countries – the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia – adopted a joint declaration highlighting the growing importance of their V4 cooperation.
Minister of State Zsolt Németh welcomed the agreement between Serbia and Kosovo concluded during his visit in Romania.
The Minister of State for EU Affairs has published an article on euractiv.com in reaction to Guy Verhofstadt, leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe calling for the application of Article 7.
The Ministry of the Foreign Affairs of Hungary was deeply saddened by the news of the extremely destructive explosion at a fertiliser plant in West, Texas.