Hungarian Ambassador Assigned To Bagdad After 22 Years
- 29 Apr 2013 9:00 AM
Hungary has assigned an ambassador to serve in Iraq for the first time in 22 years. Tibor Szatmári presented his credentials to Khudayr Musa Jafar Abbas al-Khuzai, the Vice President of Iraq, in Baghdad and will travel to the city on a regular basis until a permanent mission is established there.
Hungary withdrew its ambassador from Baghdad when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, while all of its diplomats were withdrawn in 2005 due to the dangerous security situation.
During the war in Iraq, the diplomats were assigned to serve first in Damascus and later in Amman in Jordan. In the past years relations with Iraq were revived, which offer great business opportunities for Hungarian firms in the country’s reconstruction projects.
Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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