On participation in the 3rd meeting of the Kyrgyz-Hungarian Strategic Council
On July 24-25, Ulan Sarbanov, Chairman of the Board of the Hungarian-Kyrgyz Development Fund was on a visit to Budapest.
On July 24, he took part as part of the Kyrgyz delegation in the 3rd meeting of the Kyrgyz-Hungarian Strategic Council on bilateral political, trade, economic, cultural and humanitarian cooperation, which was chaired by Jeenbek Kulubaev, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic and Peter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Economic Relations and Foreign Affairs of Hungary.
During the meeting, the parties discussed the implementation of the agreements concluded during the visit of S.N. Zhaparov, President of the Kyrgyz Republic, to Hungary on February 12-14 this year, as well as a wide range of issues of trade and economic cooperation, incl. the work of the Kyrgyz-Hungarian Intergovernmental Commission on Economic Cooperation and the Kyrgyz-Hungarian Business Council, areas of cooperation in the field of the environment and further interaction in the field of air travel.
A separate issue on the agenda was the assessment of the activities of the Hungarian-Kyrgyz Development Fund (hereinafter referred to as the Fund). Both sides noted the need to intensify the Fund's work on the implementation of projects of mutual interest in the agreed priority areas.
In addition, issues of cooperation in the cultural and humanitarian sphere were considered, with an emphasis on the field of higher professional education within the framework of the Hungarian scholarship program "Stipendium Hungaricum" and bilateral cooperation within the framework of membership in various international organizations.
As a result of the negotiations, the following documents were signed:
- Protocol between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic and the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Foreign Affairs of Hungary following the 3rd meeting of the Kyrgyz-Hungarian Strategic Council.
- Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Natural Resources, Ecology and Technical Supervision of the Kyrgyz Republic and the Ministry of Energy of Hungary on cooperation in the field of environmental protection.
On July 25, the Chairman of the Board of the Fund held working meetings with a number of Hungarian companies that showed interest in preparing and implementing various projects together with Kyrgyz companies and institutions.
Reference:
- The terms of the Fund's financing can be found on the website at the link https://hkdf.kg/frontend/web/application/index
- With the relevant press release of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic on the website at the link https://mfa.gov.kg/ru/osnovnoe-menyu/press-sluzhba/prikreplennye-novosti/sostoyalos-3-e-zasedanie-kyrgyzsko-vengerskogo-strategicheskogo-soveta
