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On Sunday, 2 July 2017 in the evening hours, on behalf of the government of Hungary, Minister of Defence Dr. István Simicskó received Head of State of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and the delegation headed by him at Liszt Ferenc International Airport, Budapest. Heading an Egyptian delegation, Head of State of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi arrived in Hungary at the invitation of Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán.

At the Cairo office of the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met the relatives of Coptic Christian men executed in Libya. He expressed his condolences to the family members present and gave them gift packages.

At the Egyptian-Hungarian business forum held in Cairo on Wednesday evening, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, in Egypt on an official visit, urged the implementation of major joint investments and “flagship projects”.

On his visit to the Egyptian capital of Cairo, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has discussed Egyptian-Hungarian relations and European politics with Ahmed el-Tayeb, Grand Imam of the al-Azhar Mosque, the spiritual centre of the Sunni Islam world.

The rapid and balanced development of Hungarian-Egyptian relations is in the best interest of both countries. By the end of 2014, Egypt became Hungary’s largest export market in the Arab world, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said at a business forum organized for Hungarian and Egyptian enterprises in Cairo. As member of the delegation headed by PM Viktor Orbán, Mihály Varga Minister held bilateral talks with Egypt’s Finance Minister Amr El-Garhy.