Hungary to take more Bangladeshi students

The Hungarian government would increase the number of scholarships to Bangladeshi students in the next year, said the country’s Foreign Minister Szijjarto.

Szijjarto assured this to his Bangladeshi counterpart Dr AK Abdul Momen in a bilateral meeting in Geneva on September 1, reads a press release on Saturday.

Both of them were in Geneva for participating in the Asia-Pacific Regional Review Meeting in preparation for the Fifth UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC 5) to be held in Qatar in January 2022.

During the meeting, issues of bilateral interest, as well as multilateral issues were discussed.

Foreign Minister Momen expressed thanks to the Hungarian foreign minister for offering scholarships to Bangladeshi students and requested him to increase the number of scholarships allocated to Bangladesh.

In reply, Szijjarto assured Momen that The Hungarian government would increase the number of scholarships to Bangladesh students in 2022, the release said.

The issue of the operationalisation of the Consulate of Hungary was also discussed in the meeting.

The two foreign ministers agreed to explore cooperation in the area of the health sector. They also discussed increasing trade between the two countries.

During the day, Foreign Minister Momen also co-chaired a session of the ongoing Asia-Pacific Regional Review Meeting of the LDCs (Least Developed Countries) together with the Undersecretary of Ministry of Commerce and Industry of Qatar at the UN Headquarters in Geneva.