Hungary Foreign Minister arrives in India

New Delhi, Jan 17 (ANI): Hungarian Foreign Affairs Peter Balazs arrived here on a five-day visit on Sunday.

His visit is part of the high-level visits that have regularly taken place between India and Hungary over the recent years.

Balazs will be paying a visit to the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi on Monday.e will meet his Indian counterpart SM Krishna on Tuesday.

India's relations with Hungary have been close and friendly, multi-faceted, and have survived the vicissitudes of political and economic changes particularly in Hungary and reorientation of foreign policy in the post-cold war period. Hungary is an important partner in Central Europe for India.

The relations between India and Hungary have been on upswing, with the bilateral trade registering impressive growth rate, going upto almost half a billion dollars last year.

Besides commercial and economic, the two countries have been having strengthening relations in the fields of science and technology, education and culture. (ANI)