The Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Péter Szijjártó arrived to London for a two-day visit on 5 July 2017 upon the invitation of the Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson to participate at the Ukraine Reform Conference. Minister Szijjártó spoke at the plenary of the Conference and later met the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Pavlo Klimkin. He underlined that “Hungary is a committed and strong supporter of the Ukrainian reform processes which is in its upmost interest both as a neighbouring country and in light of the 150 thousand Hungarians living in Ukraine”.
Minister Szijjártó also conducted negotiations with his British partners. He met the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond and the Secretary of State for Exiting the EU, David Davis to discuss issues of common interest, among others bilateral trade and investment relations and the current state of the Brexit negotiations.
Mr Szijjártó continued his programme with a speech at the CityUK Annual conference, had in depth discussion with analysts of the financial sector at a roundtable event organised by Bloomberg and gave several interviews, among others to the BBC2 Newsnight programme.
At the end of the day Minister Szijjártó participated at the official opening reception to launch Hungary’s presidency of the Visegrád 4 group.
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