Energy security has been one of the priorities for Hungary’s presidency of the Visegrad Group over the past year, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Tuesday at a press conference in Budapest attended by V4 Heads of Governments, following an event marking the end of Hungary's one-year V4 Presidency.
Jump to this pageSwitzerland hosted the tenth Annual NATO Conference on WMD Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-proliferation in Interlaken, Switzerland, from 23 to 24 June 2014.
The entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) is a common goal of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs and the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO).
Jump to this pageOn 12 June, Katalin Pallai, Head of the Budapest-based Centre for Excellence in Integrity (CEI) at the National University for Public Service met with IACA’s Dean and Executive Secretary, Martin Kreutner.
Jump to this pageIndonesia is hosting a two-day conference from 19 to 20 May 2014 in Jakarta, Indonesia, on ways to advance the ban on nuclear tests in South-East Asia, the Pacific and the Far East region.
Jump to this pagePrime Minister Viktor Orbán is holding a series of consultations prior to presenting his new cabinet on 6 June, as announced in Parliament by Minister of State heading the Prime Minister's Office János Lázár.
Jump to this pageAs part of the 2014 Academic Forum of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban-Treaty Organization (CTBTO) a panel discussion took place on 8 May 2014 at the Permanent Mission of Hungary in Vienna that was attended by all participants of the Academic Forum.
Jump to this pageHungary's new national assembly re-elected Viktor Orbán as prime minister on Saturday, with 130 votes in favour and 57 against, after which he took the oath of office, and addressed Parliament.
Jump to this pageFollowing the first meeting in Washington in 2010 and in Seoul 2012, the third Nuclear Security Summit was held in The Hague on 24-25 March 2014. This is the second time that Hungary has participated in a Nuclear Security Summit.
Jump to this pageNiue ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) today, becoming the 162th country to do so. Niue’s ratification follows the country’s signature on 9 April 2012. Lassina Zerbo, Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), said: “I welcome Niue’s ratification of the CTBT. This consolidates the anti-testing norm in a region that has suffered so much from nuclear testing and sets an example for other States in the region and beyond.”
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