The mood has changed towards Iran and once a solution is found to the country’s nuclear programme, it could offer Hungary great potential to develop ties and boost exports, the Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs told Hungarian news agency MTI in New York after addressing the UN General Assembly’s session on 30 September 2013.
Deputy Prime Minister Tibor Navracsics spoke at the opening of the conference entitled "Jewish Life and Anti-Semitism in Contemporary Europe" organised by the Tom Lantos Institute in the Hungarian Parliament building in Budapest. Speakers of the event also include Israeli Minister of Finance Yair Lapid, widow of the late Congressman Tom Lantos Mrs Annette Lantos and Minister of State Zsolt Németh from the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Ministry of National Economy will go on with expanding family benefits, reducing administrative burdens in 2014 and abolishing the transaction fee for bank card payments.
On the occasion of the International Day of Older Persons, an inter-professional conference was held to discuss issues related to elderly care.
Introductory remarks by Zsolt Németh Minister of State for Foreign Affairs on “The political aspects of Jewish life today” at the international conference “Jewish Life and Anti-Semitism in Contemporary Europe”.
Next year’s budget is expected to make everyday living conditions easier, Minister for National economy Mihály Varga said on Monday when he ceremoniously handed the draft of the 2014 Budget to President of Hungary’s Parliament László Kövér.
State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Peter Szijjárto is holding talks in Tbilisi on deepening economic and education-related ties between Hungary and Georgia.
New York, 30 September 2013
New jobs created in the private sector were also behind the increase in employment both over the past one and three years. As a result, according to the latest data of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), the number of people in employment hit a two-decade high this summer, Minister of State for Employment said at a press conference in Budapest.
Hungary is ready to send chemical and biological experts to Syria to support efforts to put the country’s chemical weapons under international control, Minister of Foreign Affairs János Martonyi told the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on 30 September 2013.