Foreign Minister holds talks with US Deputy Secretary of State

Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said he had conducted the “best talk with a Western politician over the past decade” with US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau.

In a Facebook post added on Tuesday, Minister Szijjártó said that during the “fantastic talks”, he thanked Landau for the Trump administration’s peace efforts. “I thanked him for not giving up on the peace effort despite the fact that Western politicians keep hindering it, and I was happy to hear that the US government continued to be committed to peace,” he said, according to a ministry statement.

“We agreed that we have to keep channels of communication open. We agreed on the importance of continuing the US-Russia talks. We agreed that we must fight to protect classic, patriotic, conservative values,” he said. They agreed on the importance of protecting the borders and “we expressed our joy together over the worldwide strengthening of patriotic parties,” Minister Szijjártó said.

Minister Szijjártó added that he and Landau had also pledged to further strengthen US-Hungarian economic and trade ties, and to extend cooperation to the field of nuclear industry.