Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Turkish Trade Minister Mehmet Muş signed the founding statement of a new Hungarian-Turkish economic and trade committee in Ankara on Tuesday.
Cooperation between Hungary and Turkey has always been a key focus of Hungarian foreign policy, and this will continue to develop.
Stopping illegal migration, combatting people smuggling and reinforcing border security was a common duty of Hungary and Turkey.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will attend the Turkey-Hungary Strategic Cooperation Council in Istanbul in November, with the participation of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Trade between Turkey and Hungary surpassed one billion euros in the first quarter of 2021 alone.
The foreign minister said Turkey would welcome help from Hungarian experts during the clinical phase of testing its coronavirus vaccine.
“Allow me, on behalf of the Hungarian people and in my own name, to express condolences to the families of the victims and wish a full and speedy recovery to the injured,” President Áder said.
Talks on the agenda focused on migration, military cooperation, the TurkStream gas pipeline and other pressing topics.
In a joint press conference following the signing of ten bilateral agreements, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that Hungary’s foreign policy thinking starts from the premise that without President Erdoğan’s Turkey, it is not possible to halt migration to Europe. Furthermore, PM Orbán touched upon cooperation between the two countries in terms of security, energy, and culture before closing with the topic of EU enlargement.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has discussed bilateral and international affairs with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Baku.
Minister Szijjártó said that a “new world order” was emerging under which changes in the global economy and global policy resulted in a new system of relations
According to the foreign ministry, the Hungarian government’s opening to the East policy plays a vital role in the country’s foreign policy