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From: Berhane Habtemariam (Berhane.Habtemariam@gmx.de)
Date: Wed Jun 08 2011 - 18:10:52 EDT
Hungary, Eritrea back India's bid for permanent UNSC seat
8 Jun, 2011, 11.22PM IST,PTI
NEW DELHI: Hungary and Eritrea have backed India's claim for a permanent
seat in the UN Security Council.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban conveyed the European nation's
unequivocal support for India's permanent membership in an expanded UN
Security Council during a meeting with External Affairs Minister S M Krishna
in Budapest yesterday.
Orban also expressed keen desire for intensification of economic engagement
with India, an External Affairs Ministry statement said here today.
He also conveyed to Krishna that he intended to pay a bilateral visit to
India at an early date.
Highlighting the need for regular high level dialogue, Orban renewed the
invitations extended by Hungary to Indian leaders to visit Hungary on
mutually convenient dates.
Eritrean Foreign Minister Osman Saleh offered his country's "unqualified
support" for India's candidature for a permanent UNSC seat during his
meeting with Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur in Delhi
yesterday.
He welcomed India's re-emergence as a major economic, political and
technological power, the statement said.
"He also commended India's institutionalised engagement with African
partners through the consensual, consultative and responsive mechanism put
in place under the rubric of the India-Africa Forum Summit," it added.
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