As part of the commemorative events in Latvia related to the 60th Anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and Freedom Fight, and upon the initiative of the Embassy of Hungary in Latvia, artist János Brückner made an installation entitled „The Power of Symbols”.
In Latvia we paid tribute to and commemorated the heroes of 1956 by organizing a conference, exhibition opening and movie screening at the National Library of Latvia, in Riga. The events took place on the 4th of October, 2016.
The exhibition “1956 - For Freedom and Independence” prepared by House of Terror Museum of Budapest was opened on the 4th of October, 2016 by the Ambassador of Hungary, Ms. Adrien Müller and by the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Saeima, Mr. Ojars Eriks Kalnins in the National Library of Latvia.
Further photos in the photo gallery.
On 1st of October, 2016 the Embassy of Hungary was the guest of Duke Jacob’s fair of the scenic town of Kuldiga, where we presented Hungary in a unique way.
Further photos in the photo gallery.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó held bilateral talks on security and energy policy with some of his EU foreign minister colleagues at the Bled Strategic Forum in Slovenia.
Hungary’s application for observer membership of the Council of the Baltic Seas States (CBSS) was accepted on 8 June 2016.
Dr Minister of Defence Dr. István Simicskó is heading the Hungarian delegation at a two-day Meeting of NATO Ministers of Defence that started on Tuesday, 14 June in Brussels.
Hungarian soldiers will also be deployed to the Baltic: “A political agreement has been reached concerning the fact that the countries of the Visegrád Group will each be sending a contingent of soldiers to the Baltic in three-month shifts beginning in 2017 within the framework of measures aimed at increasing NATOs presence in the region”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian news agency MTI by telephone on Friday from Jūrmala, Latvia, where he is attending a summit of foreign ministers from the Visegrád Group (V4), Baltic and Scandinavian countries.