Denis Manturov meets with Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto
First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov held a working meeting with Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto in Moscow.
The participants discussed priority issues of bilateral cooperation between the two countries, including projects for the supply of railway cars to Egypt and the construction of the Paks-2 Nuclear Power Plant in Hungary.
The First Deputy Prime Minister praised the recent meeting of the Russian-Hungarian Intergovernmental Commission in Budapest in September. A business forum was held on the sidelines of this meeting, which was attended by about 80 Russian and Hungarian companies. Denis Manturov noted that Russian businesses had put forward a number of proposals for cooperation in pharmaceuticals, chemistry, mechanical engineering, metallurgy and the food industry. In addition, the forum participants explored prospects for expanding cooperation in education and healthcare, including nuclear medicine.
