On March 26, the United Nations Human Rights Council, among others, discussed the annual report on Bolivia prepared by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
A cooperation agreement was concluded between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Péter Pázmány Catholic University (PPKE) on March 26, 2014.
The United States is ready to assist countries in Central and Eastern Europe by exporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the region, Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner said late on Tuesday after meeting Hungary's Ambassador-at-Large for Energy Security Anita Orbán.
Following the first meeting in Washington in 2010 and in Seoul 2012, the third Nuclear Security Summit was held in The Hague on 24-25 March 2014. This is the second time that Hungary has participated in a Nuclear Security Summit.
Lebanese Al-Manar television made the false allegation that Hungary’s Ambassador to Lebanon, László Váradi, had made a statement during his visit to a museum in Lebanon. Other media outlets also publicised this piece of false news without checking its authenticity.
More concrete steps are needed to bolster Hungarian-Polish relations, Hungarian Foreign Minister János Martonyi stated in a radio programme on Sunday. There is still plenty of potential in bilateral economic cooperation between the two countries, he added.
Foreign Minister János Martonyi called NATO membership the cornerstone of Hungary's national security but added that the Alliance should place more emphasis on the principle of collective defence.
Zsolt Németh, State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, had talks with leaders of Ukraine's Transcarpathian county on strategic cooperation, infrastructure development along the Hungary-Ukraine border, issues around the ethnic Hungarian minority, and energy, in Uzhhorod on Wednesday.
There is no better European Union response to the Ukrainian crisis than the fact that the previously drafted political chapters of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement are to be signed at the meeting of the European Council next Friday - said MFA Minister of State in charge of EU Affairs Enikő Győri at a press briefing held on 19 March 2014.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary, confirming its position concerning the referendum held in Crimea on March 16, regards the changing of the legal status of Crimea as illegitimate and unlawful.