The Hungarian Defence Forces continue to support the stability of the Balkans region and to participate in the mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) told Hungarian News Agency MTI on Friday.
The Defence State Secretaries of the V4 countries discussed opportunities for defence cooperation at their two-day meeting in Gdansk, Poland.
Around 25 containers of military materiel will be transported back to Hungary with the withdrawal of the Hungarian Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) from Afghanistan – the Ministry of Defence informed Hungarian News Agency MTI in a press release on Sunday.
Nearly 30 EU-funded projects were presented nationwide during the open day organised by the National Development Agency (NFÜ). At the Liszt Academy of Music, Deputy State Secretary responsible for development programs Nándor Csepreghy said that the aim of the open day is to introduce the EU projects included in the New Széchenyi Plan that positively affect people's everyday lives to the public.
"The work of the international commission that develops analytical and food-sampling methods, set up fifty years ago, is of extreme importance to ensure that safe, high quality and healthy foods reach the tables of consumers all over the world", stated Minister for Rural Development Sándor Fazekas at the opening ceremony of the four-day conference of the Codex Alimentarius Commission's Select Committee on Methods of Analysis and Sampling (CCMAS) in Budapest. Over two hundred foreign and Hungarian food safety experts accepted the invitation of the organiser, the National Food Chain Safety Office (NFCSO), to attend the event.
The Government launched the most intensive series of anti-corruption measures of the post-change of regime period following its establishment, thereby emphasising its commitment to enhancing the trust of the people in the State and to reinforcing and guaranteeing the responsible management of national assets and public funds.
The measures of the Hungarian Government and the reasons behind them are understood considerably better in Germany now, while the two countries’ friendship remains remarkably strong, said the Deputy State Secretary for International Communications Ferenc Kumin following his meetings with journalists, politicians and researchers in Berlin.
In the current situation, it is especially important that Serbian authorities demonstrate impartiality and that they make it clear, double standards are not applied when it comes to dealing with Hungarian and Serbian perpetrators and victims, Foreign Minister János Martonyi stated February 28, 2013.
Europe and the United States will face lengthy and tough negotiations about a free trade agreement but will benefit from the zone if they manage to strike a compromise without violating each other's interests, Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi told public television on Friday morning.
Government Spokesperson András Giró-Szász declared at a joint press conference held with Minister of Interior Affairs Sándor Pintér that the local governments may begin a new life following the Government's debt consolidation program.