Congresswoman Lois Frankel (D-FL) and Congressman David Cicilline (D-RI), members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee acknowledge the Hungarian Government's steps to combat anti-semitism in a letter addressed to Ambassador Szapáry.
Deputy State Secretary for Global Affairs Péter Wintermantel gave a speech at the Fourth Conference of Hungarian-Israeli Friendship Associations, which was held in Zalaegerszeg on 24-26 August. Foreign Minister János Martonyi and State Secretary János Lázár were the chief patrons of the conference.
The current International Danube Expedition (JDS3) is the world's largest river research expedition in 2013, the United Nations International Year of Water Cooperation, stated Executive Secretary of the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River Ivan Zavadsky at a press conference in Budapest.
Parliament has adopted an amendment to the Hungarian Public Education Act, introducing career models and ensuring a pay rise to all teachers as of September 2013. Alongside the career models, the legislation also introduces a quality assurance system to eliminate differing ways of calculating teachers' salaries.
In the second half of 2010, the downward employment trend was reversed and since then the number of people in employment has been steadily on the rise on a year-on-year basis. The latest statistics also underpin this positive tendency. The latest flash report from the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH) reveals that in the period May-July 2013 the number of people aged 15-74 years in employment was up by 56 thousand, to 3 million 964 thousand compared to the same period of 2012, which constitutes an increase of 1.4 percent year-on-year. Thus the employment rate edged up to 51.9 percent, the best figure since 1998. The number of economically active people has also risen to a peak of 4 million 409 thousand, a level also last seen in 1998.
Hungary strongly condemns the attack using chemical weapons carried out in Syria on 21 August 2013, as a consequence of which many civilians lost their lives.
National interests can be protected in a peaceful way that is acceptable for the great powers as well, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an interview recorded in Baile Tusnad (Tusnádfürdő) on July 27 and aired by Romanian all-news channel Digi 24 on Saturday evening.
The Government would like Hungarian communities abroad to preserve their national identity, language and culture, as well as their links to Hungary, Deputy Prime Minister Tibor Navracsics said on Monday.
Ensuring the conditions for energy security is one of the most important challenges for any country today, Foreign Minister János Martonyi declared at an international conference in Budapest on Monday.
On 20 August 2013, the Federal District Court of Chicago terminated various Holocaust related proceedings against the National Bank of Hungary (MNB) and Hungarian State Railways (MÁV). The Court unconditionally dismissed the damages claims on the grounds that the claimants failed to prove the unavailability of appropriate legal remedies in Hungary.