MINSK, 30 June (BelTA) – Belarusian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Alena Kupchyna met with Hungarian MPs during her visit to Hungary on 29 June, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Alena Kupchyna met with Vice-Chairman of the Hungarian National Assembly, Chairman of the Belarus-Hungary Group of Friendship Sandor Lezsak. “The parties discussed expansion of cooperation between the parliaments of the two countries, joint projects in the humanitarian and cultural spheres as part of the celebration of the 25th anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relations between Belarus and Hungary in 2017,” the ministry said.
The main topic of Alena Kupchyna's meeting with Chairman of the Commission on Foreign Affairs of the Hungarian National Assembly Zsolt Nemeth was the development of the Belarusian-Hungarian inter-parliamentary contacts on multilateral venues, including the Parliamentary Dimension of the Central European Initiative (CEI), where Belarus will preside in 2017. “Special attention was paid to the prospects of establishing a constructive dialogue with the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the European Parliament. The sides discussed the results of the visit of the Hungarian parliamentary delegation headed by Zsolt Nemeth to Belarus in April 2016,” the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs added.
The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs also apprised the Hungarian MPs of the progress made in the preparations for the elections to the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus.
