PUTRAJAYA, March 21 (Bernama) — Malaysia and Hungary discussed efforts to strengthen ties particularly in trade and investment, agriculture, and cooperation in electro-mobility during a bilateral meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to statement from Wisma Putra, Malaysian Foreign Minister Mohamad Hasan and Hungarian Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Peter Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 also spoke on the Malaysia-European Union (EU) bilateral relations, ASEAN-EU Dialogue Relations as well as regional and international issues of mutual interest during their bilateral meeting on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Foreign Ministers exchanged two Diplomatic Notes, namely the Bilateral Work Arrangement between both countries; and Cooperation between Malaysia\u2019s Institute of Diplomatic and Foreign Relations (IDFR) and the Hungarian Diplomatic Academy (MDA),\u201d Wisma Putra said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the statement, Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 who is on one-day working visit to Malaysia had earlier met Higher Education Minister Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir to strengthen cooperation in the higher education sector, including the ongoing Hungary\u2019s Scholarship Programme – Stipendium Hungaricum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Malaysia and Hungary have a longstanding and multi-faceted cooperation, the statement added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2023, the trade value between Malaysia and Hungary was RM3.08 billion (USD0.67 billion), with exports amounting to RM2.38 billion (USD0.52 billion) and imports valued at RM0.70 billion (USD0.15 billion).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 on his Facebook posting said increasing Hungarian agricultural exports and the fight against the world blockade were on the agenda for his visit in Malaysia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He also said Malaysia is the last stop on his visit to three most competitive countries in Southeast Asia after Thailand and Singapore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
— BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PUTRAJAYA, March 21 (Bernama) — Malaysia and Hungary discussed efforts to strengthen ties particularly in trade and investment, agriculture, and cooperation in electro-mobility during a bilateral meeting. According to statement from Wisma Putra, Malaysian Foreign Minister Mohamad Hasan and Hungarian Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Peter Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 also spoke on the Malaysia-European Union (EU) bilateral relations, ASEAN-EU Dialogue Relations as well as regional and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":100448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,286,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258415"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258421,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258415\/revisions\/258421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/100448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}