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DNH 2021 DNH 2021 · 10/12/2022
· Politics

PHOTOS: Hungarian president on official visit in Iraq

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President Katalin Novák visit Iraq

Photo: facebook.com/novak.katalin.official

Hungarian President Katalin Novák met her Iraqi counterpart in Baghdad on Friday as part of her four-day official visit to Iraq.

“We just had a historic meeting with Abdul Latif Rashid, President of Iraq, as no Hungarian President has ever visited Baghdad before. We both agreed that international terrorism is our common enemy and we condemn all of its forms. Hungary’s commitment is shown not only in words, but also in deeds, as Hungarian military forces participate in the fight against the Islamic State,” Novák said in an English language post on Facebook.

The two presidents discussed the Hungarian government’s Hungary Helps aid programme designed to support the most vulnerable groups of society including children, women and persecuted Christians, Novák’s office said in a statement. “We firmly believe that help must be provided where trouble emerges instead of bringing troubled people to Europe,” the office quoted her as saying.

Novák discussed with the Iraqi president the Russian-Ukrainian war and they were in agreement that the sides should make peace as soon as possible. The Hungarian president afterwards travelled on to Tel Skuf where she participated in a community prayer held for peace. Novák also visited a kindergarten in the town in northern Iraq where Hungary has helped rebuild several residential houses, schools and a church destroyed by ISIS.

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Later on, Novák visited Alqosh and met Lara Yussif Zara, the mayor. Accompanying Novák, Tristan Azbej, the foreign ministry’s state secretary for aiding persecuted Christians and the coordinator of the Hungary Helps scheme, told public media that “due to our Christian identity, we stand up for persecuted Christians, the most persecuted religious community in the world, with 300 million of its followers suffering persecution as a result of their beliefs”.

He noted that in Tel Skuf, Hungary had provided a humanitarian emergency aid to the town and contributed to rebuilding 900 residential houses allowing nearly 1,000 families return to their homes.

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Source: MTI

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