No: 276, 18 September 2019, Press Release Regarding the Opening of the Budapest Office of the Turkic Council

H.E. Mr. Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey will pay a visit to Hungary, upon the invitation of H.E. Mr. Peter Szijjarto, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary, to attend the opening of the Budapest Office of the Turkic Speaking Countries Cooperation Council (Turkic Council) on September 19th, 2019.

The Foreign Ministers of the members of the Turkic Council, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, as well as the observer member, Hungary, will attend the opening.

Minister Çavuşoğlu will be received by H.E. Mr. Viktor Orban, Prime Minister of Hungary, and will have bilateral meetings with his counterparts on the margins of his visit.

With the opening of the aforementioned Office, cooperation between the Turkic Council and Hungary, who obtained observer status at the Turkic Speaking Countries Parliamentary Assembly in 2014, and at the Turkic Council and Turkic Academy in 2018, will continue to develop on institutional basis.