On the margins of the high level week of the 70th session of the UN General Assembly, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Mr. Péter Szijjártó participated in bilateral meetings with foreign ministers, high level UN officials and former Governor of New York, Mr. George Pataki.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade had bilateral meetings with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Principality of Andorra, Taíb Bakus; Kyrgyz Minister of Foreign Affairs, Charles Koffi Diby; Minister for Foreign Affaris of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan; Secretary for Relations with States within the Holy See, Paul Richard Gallagher; Peter Boehm, Associate Deputy Minister at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada; and George Pataki, former Governor of New York.
In additon, at the Permanent Mission of Afghanistan by the UN, Minister Szijjártó and Minister of Foreign Affairs, H.E. Salahuddin Rabbani signed a memorandum of understanding between the foreign ministries of Hungary and Afghanistan.
Furthermore, to strengthen ties between the UN and Hungary, the Minister met with Jeffrey Feltman, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs and Deputy-Secretary-General Jan Eliasson.
