Ambassador Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky started his first official visit to Belfast, Northern Ireland on 12 October 2017 accompanied by Ken Belshaw, Honorary Consul of Hungary in Belfast.
On the first day he met political leaders in the Northers Ireland Assembly (Stormont), among others Arlene Foster, the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party and former Minister of Education, John O’Dowd of Sinn Féin; and Nuala McAllister, Lord Mayor of Belfast. He also attended, among several other members of the diplomatic corps, the official dinner organised by the Consular Association of Northern Ireland.
On the second day the Ambassador visited the Hungarian community in Omagh and payed his respect to the victims of the Omagh bombing. He chatted with Hungarian employees at the Telestack Factory and at the Mullaghmore Bakery; and also met Hungarian and local students at the Dumreagh Integrated College. The ambassador then gave a speech at the reception organised by the Omagh Ethnic Community Support Group and the local Hungarians.
At the last day , the Ambassador took a tour of the Derry/Londonderry city walls with a local councillor, and met Jim Roddy of the City Centre Initiative before visiting one of the „invisible” border crossing point.
