Hungarian FM: Hungary committed supporter of Eastern Partnership

Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó expressed Hungary’s firm support for the EU’s Eastern Partnership programme, including Moldova, in talks with senior Moldovan officials in Chișinău on Wednesday.

Szijjártó met Moldova’s Foreign and EU Affairs Minister Tudor Ulianovschi, President Igor Dodon and Deputy Prime Minister Iurie Leancă.

“We consider Britain’s exit [from the EU] … a sad development,” Szijjártó told MTI over the phone. He added that the EU could only get stronger if it “literally looks beyond its borders” and establishes strategic and effective political and economic cooperation with countries aspiring to join the EU.

Strengthening the Eastern Partnership programme is in Hungary’s interest and Moldova being in the forefront of the programme, it is also in Hungary’s interest that Moldova should get as tangible European integration perspectives as possible, he said.