Prime Minster Viktor Orbán meets India leader

Budapest, October 16 (MTI) – Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met Vice President of India Mohammad Hamid Ansari for talks in Budapest on Sunday.

After the talks, Orbán said in a press statement that “Hungary needs investors like India”. He argued that Hungary is approaching full employment and that the country has “run out of its labour force”.

Mohammad Hamid Anszari, vice president of India and Viktor Orbán, photo: MTI/ Noémi Bruzák

Orbán said that Hungary’s technologies call for continuous improvement, which requires investment from foreign countries, including India. He noted that in the past two years India had made the largest greenfield investments in the country, and further projects are planned.

The Indian vice president called bilateral ties multi-faceted and friendly. Both countries are democracies with a dynamic economy, he added.

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He noted that they had signed a statement of intent on cooperation between the Indian Council of World Studies and the Hungarian Institute of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade as well as the Ministry of Interior and the Indian ministry for water and river management and the restoration of the Ganges.

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Ansari said they had agreed that terrorism must be eliminated in the framework of global cooperation.

The Indian vice president noted he would meet President János Áder later in the day.

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Source: MTI