Hungarian FM Szijjártó meets Russian counterpart, US Ambassador to UN – UPDATE

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó met his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, and the United States‘ ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on Friday.

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On the subject of his meeting with the Russian Foreign Minister, Mr. Szijjártó told the press that according to plan an agreement on cooperation within the field of social security will be signed at November’s meeting of the Hungarian-Russian Economic Joint Committee in Budapest, as well as an agreement on the mutual recognition of diplomats.

The Minister and Mr. Lavrov reviewed the process surrounding the moving of the International Investment Bank (IIB) to Budapest, acknowledging that the Hungarian Government has written an official letter suggesting that the headquarters should be transferred, which the Russian party is supporting, and which the Bank’s President has also forwarded to shareholders with a note of support.

The parties were also happy to determine that the Hungarian-Russian consortium is increasingly close to success in Egypt, where we have a change of winning the tender for one of the Hungarian automotive industry’s most significant foreign shipment projects, Mr. Szijjártó said.