Foreign Minister János Martonyi conducted bilateral talks with Surapong Tovichakchaikul, the Foreign Minister of Thailand on the sidelines of the 9th Summit of the ASEM-Asia-Europe Meeting.
State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Zsolt Németh decorated Ambassador of Montenegro, Vanja Brajlo.
„The Hungarian government regards it as its moral and political obligation to face past violations of rights connected to the dictatorships of the twentieth century,” Parliamentary State Secretary Zsolt Németh declared in his opening remarks at the Fifth Budapest Human Rights Forum on November 8.
The 22nd assembly of the Hungarian-German Forum, which was launched by German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and late Hungarian Prime Minister József Antall in 1991, began in Berlin on November 8. More than forty politicians, experts and scholars – including the German and the Hungarian Foreign Minister – attend the two-day forum.
Hungarian Foreign Minister János Martonyi held talks with his Sir Lankan counterpart Gamini Lakshman Peiris November 8, 2012. The parties agreed on restarting political cooperation and strengthening economic and trade relations.
Foreign Minister János Martonyi had a bilateral meeting with the recently appointed Foreign Minister of India, Salman Khurshid, at the ASEM summit in Laos.
Foreign Minister János Martonyi represented Hungary at the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) summit in Vientiane, Laos, on November 5-6. The Hungarian Foreign Minister spoke about the outstanding role of water resources in sustainable development and about sustainable water management at the summit.
The parliamentary elections held in Ukraine received special attention in Hungary, testament to which is the fact that – coming out in great numbers to the Ukrainian request - there were a total of 45 Hungarian election observers who followed the events on site.
An international conference on the life of the famous Swedish diplomat, Raoul Wallenberg, entitled „Face to Face with Evil” was hosted in Prague on November 5. Hungary was represented by Zsolt Németh, Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Speaker of the lower chamber of the Czech legislation, Miroslava Nemcová was the chief patron of the event, which took place in the building of the Czech House of Representatives.
Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Zsolt Németh on Tuesday called the legitimacy of the outcome of Ukraine's parliamentary elections questionable and qualified the vote as a step back in democratic development.