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PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. expressed on Thursday the Philippine government\u2019s intent to forge new partnerships with Hungary to strengthen the economic ties between the two nations.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m very happy to welcome you once again to the Philippines,\u201d President Marcos told Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary, His Excellency P\u00e9ter Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 during his courtesy call at the Malaca\u00f1an Palace.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThe 50th commemoration of our formal ties, and I hope that with all that is happening around the world and all of the opportunities, of course there are challenges, and all the opportunities also that is \u2013 that we\u2019ll be able to hopefully forge new relationships,\u201d he added.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Philippine-Hungary diplomatic relations were established on September 28, 1973.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 previously visited Manila in 2017, where he met then acting Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Secretary Enrique Manalo and paid a courtesy call on former president Rodrigo Duterte.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n He returned to the Philippines in 2020 and met with then DFA secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n For his part, Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 extended his gratitude to President Marcos for the warm welcome accorded to him.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cMr. President, thank you so much for receiving me. Thank you so much for the invitation. You have great secretaries with whom I\u2019ll be working together for a long time. This is the third occasion that I have the honor to visit your fantastic country,\u201d Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 told President Marcos.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 said he is working closely with the DFA to further improve the vibrant relationship between the Philippines and Hungary as he stressed the great results achieved between the two countries in recent years.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hungary has generally been supportive of the Philippines in European Union (EU) and United Nations (UN) discussions on human rights and alleged extra-judicial killings in accordance with Hungary\u2019s policy of non-interference in the domestic affairs of other countries.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In 2023, Hungary was the Philippines\u2019 46th trading partner, 30th export market, and 64th import source. The country served as the second home to around 16,098 Filipinos as of December 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Majority of the Filipinos are employed as automotive technicians, machine operators, drivers, forklift operators, hotel workers, farm workers, warehouse workers, logistics operators and truck drivers.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. expressed on Thursday the Philippine government’s intent to forge new partnerships with Hungary to strengthen the economic ties between the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6568,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6566\/revisions\/6568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}