PHOTOS: Africa Expo opened in Budapest

Africa Expo and Fair is an annual international forum focused on the building of African-Hungarian relations, presenting business and cooperation opportunities, and boosting partnerships between African and Hungarian stakeholders.

Tristan Azbej, the foreign ministry’s state secretary in charge of persecuted Christians, outlined Hungary’s plans to expand cooperation with the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC), at the Africa Expo in Budapest on Friday.

The event was organised to present the results of a peer review the OECD DAC conducted in Hungary last year. Hungary’s strategy until 2025 aims to overcome the most significant challenges for the international community, such as poverty and inequality, Azbej told the event. In addition to Africa, the Hungarian government is also focusing on the Middle East and the European Union’s neighbourhood, he said.

As regards the government’s Hungary Helps humanitarian programme, the state secretary noted that it had aided so far some one million people in staying in their homeland or returning there. He underscored the need to protect Christian communities threatened by extremism. Hungary has offered scholarships in 60 countries since the launch of the scheme in 2017, he noted.