Egyptian FM Sameh Shoukry hold talks in Hungary

There are no open issues between Hungary and Egypt and the two countries “benefit a lot from good bilateral ties especially in terms of the economy”, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said after meeting his Egyptian counterpart in Budapest on Monday.

At a press conference held together with Sameh Shoukry, Szijjártó said that stability in North Africa was crucial for “security and calm in Europe”, adding that the Hungarian government would make efforts “to ensure that Egypt’s achievements in that field are recognised”.

The Hungarian government has supported that Egypt should receive a “fair political approach”. “Many forums” discuss Egypt in “one-sided, biased, aggressive, and hypocritical statements and documents containing baseless lies”, Szijjártó said.

Concerning economic cooperation with Egypt, Szijjártó said that

Hungary’s transport industry was “delivering on its largest foreign order ever”, with a Hungarian-Russian consortium producing 1,300 railway carriages worth a total 370 billion forints (EUR 1bn) to the Egyptian national railway company.

Hungarian companies are contributing to the renovation of cranes at the ports of Alexandria and Suez, as well as to drinking water projects in the Sinai peninsula, while Hungary has been contracted to deliver 7,000 cattle to Egypt before the end of the year, Szijjártó said.