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The Embassy attended the State Remembrance event on the Day of Remembrance for Hungarian victims of the Holocaust, in the Hungarian Parliament, on 16th April 2024.
The annual bilateral meeting of the Hungarian Government and the Order of Malta was held in the Government building of Buda Castle on March 12.The meeting was chaired by Zsolt Semjén, Deputy Prime Minister of the Hungarian Government, and Dr. Heinz Anton Hafner, Ambassador of the Sovereign Order of Malta. Leaders of the Hungarian Association and the Hungarian Charity Service of the Order of Malta were in attendance.
H.E. Ambassador Heinz Hafner was with the Hungarian Knights of Malta in the Palatine crypt in Buda Castle, where they commemorated the first president of the Hungarian Association, Archduke Joseph August Habsburg-Lothringen, with a Holy Mass. The Palatine crypt in Buda Castle is the burial place, to this day, of members of the Hungarian Palatine branch of the House of Habsburg-Lothringen.
On the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the Curia, a reception was held on 24 February for the diplomatic corps accredited in Hungary. H.E. the Ambassador of the Sovereign Order of Malta had the opportunity to congratulate the President of the Curia, Dr. András Varga.
Béla Ugron, First Secretary of the Embassy, was awarded the Officer's Cross Pro Merito Melitensi
HE Anton Hafner participates in private audience with the Holy Father, at the conclusion of the Ambassardors' Conference.
New Year's greetings of the Diplomatic Corps to the President of the Republic of Hungary
Ambassador Hafner awards the Order of Malta's Medal for the Ukraine Emergency to three recipients
The fourth annual ball for mobility impaired youth was held in Budapest on September 30, organised by the Association of Hungarian Knights of Malta, with the support of the Embassy.