The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó arrived in Chevening upon the invitation of Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt to participate at talks about current challenges in security policy.
The Minister took part in an informal meeting of foreign ministers of the countries of the Visegrád Group (V4), Slovenia, Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania, at the invitation of his British counterpart Jeremy Hunt at the Foreign Secretary’s country residence in Chevening, Southeast England. The discussions with his counterparts focused on current challenges in security policy.
At the site of the meeting, Mr. Szijjártó told the Hungarian news agency MTI: “The region expects the EU to achieve a Brexit agreement that can be acknowledged as fair by both parties”. “The lack of such agreement would grossly violate the interests of Central Europe in view of the fact that the region realises an extremely high level of trade turnover with the United Kingdom and there is a major level of British investment in the region’s economies. In addition, millions of people from the countries of Central Europe live and work in the United Kingdom and their rights must also be guaranteed”, he added.
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