The prime minister congratulated the Turkish president on his victory and the outstanding success of his AK Party in the first round of Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections.
Minister Szijjártó expressed Hungary’s gratitude for Turkey's role in guaranteeing the country’s energy security.
The foreign minister noted that a political agreement had been reached on deliveries of around 100 cubic meters of Azeri gas to Hungary this year.
Hungary’s government has offered to finance the reconstruction of an orthodox church and a cultural center in Turkey following last month’s earthquake and will help rebuild a hospital destroyed in...
Minister Szijjártó expressed his sympathies to Turkey over the earthquakes on Feb. 6, which killed over 50,000 people in southeast Turkey and Syria.
The prime minister said Europe was “suffering from war psychosis”, and was being drawn into the war in Ukraine.
The foreign minister said Hungary rushed to the aid of the “brotherly nation” right after the disaster “when the focus was on saving lives”.
The prime minister said Hungary is committed to further strengthening economic ties with Turkey and is working to increase trade volume to an annual 6 billion dollars.
Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said the TurkStream pipeline remains the only east-west pipeline on the continent operating at full capacity.
Minister Szijjártó told a press conference that Turkey's role in tackling global challenges had grown in recent years.
Economic cooperation between Turkey and Hungary is flourishing and bilateral trade is at an unprecedented level.
The foreign minister said Hungary received 4.8 billion cubic meters of gas via the TurkStream pipeline last year, which covers around half of the country’s total consumption.
The foreign minister said that without cooperation with Turkey, Hungary’s energy security would not be guaranteed and the country would not have achieved several of its economic records last year.