Hungarian president briefed on protection of eastern border

President Katalin Novák received a briefing on Wednesday on the protection of Hungary’s eastern border at an army base in Debrecen, public news channel M1 reported.

Novák, who is commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, was briefed on the situation at the border together with army chief Romulusz Ruszin-Szendi and Major General István Kun-Szabó at the command centre of the North-Eastern Task Force of the Armed Forces of Hungary.

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Novák then left for Fehérgyarmat, in north-eastern Hungary. She is accompanied on her tour by a cadet of the Kratochvil Károly Military Secondary School whose outstanding academic achievements were recognised with an opportunity to travel with the president.