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Hungarian minister signs diplomatic, economic, educational agreements in Costa Rica – Photos
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Washington, DC, May 12 (MTI) – Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó signed diplomatic, economic and educational agreements during a visit to Costa Rica.
“Hungary considers Costa Rica a bridgehead in establishing ties with central America,” Szijjártó told MTI by phone from San Jose on Wednesday evening local time. Experience shows that Costa Rica also considers Hungary a bridgehead in its network of central European and European relations, he said.
Szijjártó met Costa Rica’s president, Luis Guillermo Solis, and held talks with his counterpart Manuel Gonzalez Sanz at the foreign ministry.
Szijjártó said they agreed to hold regular diplomatic consultations. The sides signed a collocation agreement in line with which Hungarian diplomats will have offices in Costa Rica’s embassies in Uruguay, Paraguay, and Panama, and Hungary will offer office space for Costa Rican diplomats at its embassies in central Europe.
They also agreed to expand economic cooperation primarily in water management. Costa Rica has the resources to support itself from renewable energy, especially hydropower, over several months a year, so it can be a potential market for Hungarian water management technologies, Szijjarto said.
