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Hungarian-Serb ties ‘have never been so strong’, says FM Szijjártó – UPDATE
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Hungarian-Serbian relations are at peak strength on the political, economic, trade and investment fronts, Péter Szijjártó, the foreign minister, said on Wednesday.
At a press conference after a meeting of the Hungarian-Serbian mixed economic committee, Szijjártó noted that Serbia is Hungary‘s top partner in the Western Balkans. Mutual respect forms the basis of friendly relations between the two countries, he said. Last year, bilateral trade reached 2.5 billion euros, he added.
Goran Knezevic, Serbia’s economy minister, noted that
Hungary is Serbia’s sixth most important trading partner and its 13th biggest investor.
Speaking about concrete projects, Szijjártó noted Hungarian oil and gas company Mol’s over 110 million euro investment in Serbia, and acquisition of a Vojvodina bank and the Serbian subsidiary of Societe Generale by OTP, Hungary’s leading bank.