Start Date: Monday, April 30, 2001
Last Modified: Monday, May 4, 2020
End Date: Friday, December 31, 9999
SECRETARY POWELL: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. It was my great pleasure to receive my colleague, the Foreign Minister of Hungary. We have had a good discussion of the bilateral relationship that exists between our two countries. It's on a very strong footing. We have a common interest and a common position with respect to security issues in Europe. We have a strong NATO partner in Hungary, and we have cooperated in a number of ways. And I want to again thank the Foreign Minister for being such a good host to those American troops who pass through Hungary or are at the base in Hungary, and I do appreciate that. And we are looking very much forward to the ministerial meeting that Hungary will be hosting at the end of the month in Budapest for all of the NATO colleagues. So, Mr. Minister, it's a great pleasure to welcome you. Perhaps you'd just like to say a word to the cameras. FOREIGN MINISTER MARTONYI: Thank you very much. I just would like to add that we have excellent bilateral relations now, the United States and Hungary. Trade is booming; American investments are enormously successful in Hungary, and we hope that they will expand also in the future. We discussed a number of issues of interest for both of us. The Hungarian point is very simple: We have a fundamental interest in smooth cooperation, working together based upon confidence and friendship between Europe and the United States; and we try to offer our modest contribution in this respect. Hungary is a very staunch ally. It can be relied upon. We will also play this role in the future, and this is what I wanted to repeat, to confirm and reconfirm again, to the Secretary of State. Thank you. SECRETARY POWELL: Thank you very much. I don't want you to be late for the President.
SECRETARY POWELL: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. It was my great pleasure to receive my colleague, the Foreign Minister of Hungary. We have had a good discussion of the bilateral relationship that exists between our two countries. It's on a very strong footing. We have a common interest and a common position with respect to security issues in Europe. We have a strong NATO partner in Hungary, and we have cooperated in a number of ways.
And I want to again thank the Foreign Minister for being such a good host to those American troops who pass through Hungary or are at the base in Hungary, and I do appreciate that. And we are looking very much forward to the ministerial meeting that Hungary will be hosting at the end of the month in Budapest for all of the NATO colleagues.
So, Mr. Minister, it's a great pleasure to welcome you. Perhaps you'd just like to say a word to the cameras.
FOREIGN MINISTER MARTONYI: Thank you very much. I just would like to add that we have excellent bilateral relations now, the United States and Hungary. Trade is booming; American investments are enormously successful in Hungary, and we hope that they will expand also in the future.
We discussed a number of issues of interest for both of us. The Hungarian point is very simple: We have a fundamental interest in smooth cooperation, working together based upon confidence and friendship between Europe and the United States; and we try to offer our modest contribution in this respect. Hungary is a very staunch ally. It can be relied upon. We will also play this role in the future, and this is what I wanted to repeat, to confirm and reconfirm again, to the Secretary of State.
Thank you.
SECRETARY POWELL: Thank you very much. I don't want you to be late for the President.
Colin Powell
Remarks with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Hungary Janos Martonyi
Remarks with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Hungary Janos Martonyi Following Their Meeeting
05/01/01