Hungary and DR strengthen ties; Foreign Minister visits

[Dolores]

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjárto visited last week to strengthen diplomatic and cooperation ties between both countries. Foreign Minister Roberto Álvarez hosted his colleague, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary, Péter Szijjárto. Szijjárto has been in the position since 2014.

Szijjárto’s visit is the first in 40 years of bilateral diplomatic relations. The Ministry of Foreign Relations reported the ministers held discussions on their perspectives and positions on a variety of issues on the global agenda, including national security challenges, such as irregular immigration and international policy.

The ministers advocated the defense of multilateralism as an indispensable resource for dialogue and the search for peace among peoples and agreed to continue working together in the different spaces provided by the United Nations...

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[NALs]

Israel has special considerations with the DR because of what the DR did in the 1940’s.

Hungarians were also benefitted (though most were deported bsck to Hungary since a rash of robberies and break ins shook Ciudad Trujillo.) Once an investigation evidenced that the Hungarians were behind this rash, Trujillo ordered what now is impossible: deport most Hungarians back to Hungary.

Two results came from that:

1. The robbery spree in Ciudad Trujillo came to a screeching halt. A miracle!

2. To this day you still hear some Dominican mothers tell their misbehaving sons/daughters to not be such a Hungarian. They don’t really say it thinking of Hungary or the Hungarians, but sayings that pop out of nowhere.

Fun Fact

The only Dominican invented gun was invented by a Hungarian immigrant. I don’t remember his full name, but the last name was Kovacs. The gun was manufactured in San Cristóbal.

 

[Buzz65]

the FM is doing his job, albeit going after the low hanging fruit.

 

[Notengo]

Nothing to be proud of. They will likely exchange ideas about more corruption and how to make goulash of illegal immigrants.