ArmInfo. Hungary would like to open a consulate in Yerevan.
Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Peter Szijjarto announced on October 27 in Yerevan at a joint press conference with Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan.
"At a meeting with Ararat, Mirzoyan I requested permission to open a Hungarian consulate in Yerevan," he said.
Mr. Szijjarto added that the Hungarian authorities will call on Wizz Air to launch flights from Yerevan to Budapest to ensure direct connection between Armenia and Hungary.
This is the first visit of a high-level Hungarian official to Yerevan after the fall of 2012, when Armenia unilaterally froze diplomatic relations with Budapest. Then Hungary extradited to Azerbaijan the murderer Ramil Safarov, who in 2004 hacked to death the Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan with an ax in a NATO training camp. Relations began to normalize after RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan came to power. In particular, on December 1, 2022, within the framework of the OSCE Ministerial Forum in Lodz, a meeting was held between the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Hungary Ararat Mirzoyan and Peter Szijjarto, during which an agreement was reached on the restoration of full diplomatic relations.