Hungary to boost cooperation with Kuwait

Hungary and Kuwait have agreed to boost cooperation in several areas, the minister of foreign affairs and trade said on Thursday in Kuwait City.

Hungary-Kuwait cooperation

Speaking after talks with the Kuwaiti foreign, finance and trade ministers, Péter Szijjártó said cooperation was based on “mutual sympathy and the fact that the history of both countries is marked by the fight for freedom and independence.”

According to a ministry statement, the ministers signed a cooperation agreement on exchange programmes between diplomatic academies, as well as on cultural cooperation.

The latter will bring Hungarian music and literature to Kuwait, he said. “We have also signed an agreement on cooperation in cyber protection, a response to an extremely severe modern challenge, as wars and conflicts are now clearly being fought in cyberspace as well as in reality,” Szijjártó said.

Hungary, he added, had already garnered international recognition in cyber protection, “and cooperation with Kuwait will boost our security in cyberspace”. A leading Hungarian company in the field has already set up a subsidiary in Kuwait, and its 50 professionals will start working with local authorities and private clients next year, he said.

Szijjártó welcomed that talks between Hungarian oil and gas company MOL and its Kuwaiti counterpart were “in the home stretch” on Kuwait using Hungarian technologies towards the production of crude oil in a more effective and environmentally friendly way.