The United States of America has expressed its appreciation of Hungary’s leading role in Afghanistan, Péter Szijjártó, State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations said on MR1-Kossuth Hungarian public radio’s morning show called 180 Minutes.

The State Secretary informed listeners that he had explained to the representatives of local foreign affairs institutes why there was a need to adopt a new fundamental law in Hungary. ’I highlighted that following the change of regime, Hungary was the only post-communist country in Central Europe that was unable to adopt a new constitution.’

Péter Szijjártó has also met the leaders of the most significant Jewish organizations who welcomed the steps taken by the government so far. The State Secretary asked them to intervene to ask American authorities to ban the activities of the news portal Kurucinfo, which operates from a US server, something US authorities have refused to do citing freedom of expression.

With regard to his on-going Azerbaijani talks, he pointed out that he has been consulting on the potential involvement of Hungarian companies in Azerbaijani projects, particularly in the fields of agriculture and construction.

(MTI)