Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Department of State Visits Hungary

Szöveg: hungariandefence.com | 2012. április 4. 10:25

Péter Siklósi, Deputy State Secretary for Defence Policy and Planning, Ministry of Defence of Hungary received Marie L. Yovanovitch, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Department of State, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs in the Ministry of Defence in the afternoon of Thursday, March 29. Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis, the US Ambassador to Budapest was also present at the meeting.

During the meeting the two sides discussed the current issues in NATO’s role in Afghanistan and the NATO Summit which will be held in Chicago in May 2012. Deputy Assistant Secretary Yovanovitch expressed her appreciation of the role of Hungary and the Hungarian Defence Forces in Afghanistan. Deputy State Secretary Péter Siklósi thanked her for the many-sided support of the United States of America to the Hungarian Defence Forces.