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PHOTOS: Arab Cultural Day held in Budapest
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Some 15 Arabic countries were presented at the Arab Cultural Day at the Museum of Ethnography in Budapest on Saturday.
The event featuring exhibitions, presentations by Arabic artists, concerts and food was opened by House Speaker László Kövér.
Kövér in his address said Hungarians’ links with the Arab world and culture go back to the time preceding the founding of the Hungarian state. The intensity of maintaining ties received new impetus with the government launching its policy of opening to the south after 2010, he said.
“Economic mixed committees have been reformed, we have developed a network of attaches covering the entire region and we have launched the Stipendium Hungaricum scholarship scheme,” said Kövér. Some
3,308 Arab students study in Hungary on scholarships
and they represent 31 percent of all students in the Stipendium Hungaricum scheme, he added.
Economic relations represent the main area of cooperation, the house speaker said. Hungary’s exports to Arabic countries exceeded 1 billion dollars in each of the past six years and Hungarian imports from these countries doubled during the period of 2016-2018, he added.
