Turkey officially joins countries accepting the Hungarian immunity certificate

Hungary-Turkey relations have been developing extremely fast and further growth is expected in the future, the head of parliament’s foreign affairs committee said on Thursday, following a visit to Turkey.

Zsolt Németh said a foreign affairs committee delegation had travelled to Ankara and Izmir and met the Turkish foreign minister, a partner committee delegation and the head and members of Turkey’s Council of Europe delegation. They also laid a wreath at the statue of Hungarian revolutionary Lajos Kossuth in Izmir and paid a visit to the Hungarian contingent in NATO’s Allied Land Command, he added.

The main topic of the talks was bilateral ties, he said, adding that the two countries will celebrate the 100th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations next year.

He noted that the two governments had signed an agreement on the mutual acceptance of immunity certificates “in good time, at the start of the tourist season”.

Németh said Hungary continued to support Turkey’s European Union accession and considered it important that Turkey should get the financial support it had been promised by the community. Talks must continue on visa liberalisation and the renewal of the customs union, he added.

He expressed hope that the Turkic Council would hold a meeting this year and said that it had been agreed that the foreign affairs committees would start cooperation under the council’s framework.

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Source: MTI