“We will never sever the umbilical cord between the motherland and the Hungarians torn away, and we will never let it be severed,” President Novák said.
President Novák held talks in Warsaw with her Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda on Tuesday.
The president said on Facebook that she was glad to get a chance to meet Duda, from whom she received the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the...
András Heisler expressed hope that President Novák would be successful in her role as head of state and would strengthen the unity of the nation.
President Novák was elected head of state by parliament on March 10. She is the sixth president since the 1989/90 change of the political system.
“The State of Israel values and appreciates its relationship with Hungary,” Herzog wrote in the letter.
Katalin Novák will be officially sworn in as Hungary's next president during a ceremony on Saturday.
Katalin Novák will officially be inaugurated to her office in an ecumenical service in the Kálvin Square reformed church on May 14.
President-elect Katalin Novák said Hungarians have so far donated a total of 750 million forints (EUR 2m) to help people fleeing the war in Ukraine.
Novák received 137 votes of 188 valid votes. She took the presidential oath of office and will become the sixth Hungarian president on May 10.
Parliament is scheduled to elect the next president of Hungary on March 10.
A Századvég survey found that 92 percent of the respondents said they knew of the candidate and 51 percent said they had a good opinion of her.