H.E. Mr. Péter Szijjártó Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs H.E. Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo had an introductory meeting where avenues of cooperation, the support of preventive diplomacy, fight against terrorism, migration and the Western Balkan policy were discussed. Ms. DiCarlo succeeds Jeffrey Feltman of the United States, who completes his assignment on 31 March 2018. Ms. DiCarlo has more than 35 years of experience in public service and academia, and served as inter alia Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
On the margin of Security Council open briefing on Ukraine Minister Szijjártó met his Ukrainian counterpart, H.E. Pavlo Klimkin, Minister for Foreign Affairs, to establish an intergovernmental working group in order to follow up the implementation of the decision of the Venice Comission on the Ukrainian educational law. “Our goal is for Transcarpathian Hungarians to be given back the rights that they were previously afforded and guaranteed”, Mr. Szijjártó declared. “Our goal is also to enable us to return to our policy, which in Ukraine’s case was built on supporting our neighbours’ European and Euro-Atlantic integration processes”, he added.
