Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, held consultations with Israeli counterpart Gideon Sa'ar over the phone on Friday, and said the government was not aware of any Hungarian citizens in trouble as a result of the crisis in the Middle East.
Minister Szijjártó said the government was making every effort to support Hungarian citizens living or travelling in the region.
"We know of 860 Hungarian citizens in the area affected by the current military activities in the Middle East who have registered for consular protection; the majority are in Israel, while some are in Jordan and Iran," he added.
"Of course, our embassies in the region maintain an extraordinary on-call service, ready to receive calls from Hungarian citizens at any time of the day. Several calls and reports have been received by our embassies in the region. Hungarian citizens have mostly asked for information about travel opportunities within the given country, and we certainly gave them the necessary information and help," he said.
"The most important and best news in this regard is that we are not aware of any Hungarian citizen in trouble, the crisis management platform of the consular service is up and running, so we can easily contact Hungarians living in the region, and they can easily inform our offices if they get it trouble..." he added.
Minister Szijjártó also said that he had recently received a phone call from his Israeli counterpart and briefed him on the reasons for air strikes against Iran last night, and the decision's background.
"It had been known from various public sources that Israel viewed the nuclear programme of Iran as a very serious risk, and my Israeli counterpart told me that they now considered it justified and timely to take the steps they took early in the morning," he added.
"I told my Israeli counterpart that Hungary had a vested interest in peace to return to the Middle East. We would like all people in the Middle East to have their rights and chance to a peaceful life restored, regardless of their nationality, ... religion and place of residence. We would like to see and we hope that the people of the Middle East get their lives back as soon as possible, so they do not have to fear terrorist attacks and rocket attacks every single day," he added.