The IAEA Board of Governors convened its third session this year on Monday, 10 September 2012. The Hungarian delegation is led by H.E. Mr. Pál Kovács, minister of state for climate change and energy.
The memorial evening was held on September 9, in Budapest, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Raoul Wallenberg's birth, a Swedish diplomat, who saved the lives of countless Hungarian Jews during the holocaust.
Hungary's Foreign Ministry told the ambassador of Azerbaijan in Budapest on Sunday that the actions that followed the transferral home of life-sentenced Azerbaijani Ramil Sahib Safarov are unacceptable to Hungary, the foreign affairs state secretary at the prime minister's office told Hunagrian News Agency MTI.
The State Secretariat responsible for Religious, Ethnic and Civil Society Relations of the Ministry of Human Resources considers it outrageous and scandalous that anonymous persons vandalized 57 tombs in the Jewish cemetery of Kaposvár on Saturday night.
On 21 June 2012 Yukiya Amano, Director General of the IAEA arrived to Budapest for an official visit. In the morning Mr. Amano visited the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Center for Energy Research then he met with Mr. György Matolcsy Minister of National Economy.
The new president was sworn into office on 10 May 2012.
As a side event to the CTBTO's "Training the Trainers" seminar, the Hungarian Permanent Mission held a Panel Discussion on Civil and Scientific Applications of the CTBT Verification Technologies. Among the presenters were Dr. Kristóf Kakas from the Geological and Geophysical Institute of Hungary.
„Christianity is not compatible with anti-Semitism! Nor is it compatible with incitement to hatred or with the stirring of emotions against any religious community or group. (…) Anti-Semitism is incompatible with humanity! According to the Bible all people are God’s creation. We are all each other’s brothers and sisters.” - Cardinal Péter Erdő, 15th April 2012.
The Embassy of Hungary in Vienna along with the Permanent Mission of Hungary to the UN and OSCE jointly organized an event at the Vienna Künstlerhaus where the diplomatic staff enjoyed a guided tour of Mihály Munkácsy's work followed by a reception.
The Hungarian Mission to the UN in co-operation with Art Market Budapest on the 8th of May 2012 held the opening of an exhibition from the collection of the Austrian Gaudens Pedit Gallery.