New Széchenyi Plan road show around the country sets off on 20 January 2911 Top officials have set out from the Ministry of National Development and the National Development Agency to familiarise rural chambers of industry and businesses with the remade development policy at jointly organised programmes.
Minister of Defence Dr Csaba Hende has paid an official visit to Paris to have talks with the Minister of Defence of France, Alain Juppé. During the meeting priorities of the Hungarian EU Presidency, Common Security and Defence Policy issues and bilateral military relations have been discussed.
Further environmental projects will start soon implementation in the framework of the Swiss-Hungarian Co-operation Programme. Support agreements for the two projects were signed on 20 January 2011 in the presence of Hungarian Minister of National Development Dr Tamás Fellegi and Swiss Minister of Economic Affairs Johann Schneider-Ammann. The approximately CHF 11 million contribution may be used for updating environment protection monitoring systems in the near future.
Minister of Defence of the Hungarian Republic and Slovak Minister of Defence Lubomir Galko paid tribute to the memory of the victims crashed in Hejce five years ago. “The soldiers have made every effort to establish peace in a broken, war-ridden country,” Dr Csaba Hende said.
The Hungarian soldiers killed at river Don in World War II were publicly commemorated for the seventeenth time at the Memorial Chapel in Pákozd.
The troops of the Hungarian PRT will face great challenges in the next few weeks. The allied forces have completed their operations and banished the insurgents. The CIMIC and PSYOPS teams have been doing their best to improve the living conditions of the people in the region.
Hungarian Defence Forces have taken the delivery of ten new US-made armoured vehicles at Camp Pannonia. The MRAPs will be used by the troops in Afghanistan.
Minister of Defence of Hungary has had talks with High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security of the European Union.
The troops of HDF National Support Element Afghanistan have started to take over and deliver the American armored fighting vehicles to Mazar-e Sharif.
On 14 January 2011, Prime Minister Dr Viktor Orbán, Minister for National Development Dr Tamás Fellegi and Minister of the National Economy Dr György Matolcsy presented the new Széchenyi Plan in Budapest. Numerous politicians and public figures attended the inaugural meeting in Budapest Mariott Hotel along with all business, non-profit, local government and non-government partners, who have contributed to the elaboration of the New Széchenyi Plan with their useful proposals.