Hungary opens consulate in Miami

Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto opened a Hungarian consulate in Miami, Florida, on Tuesday. The new consulate will help maintain relations with ethnic Hungarian communities in the region and improve economic links, the minister told MTI over the phone after the event. It will also perform consular duties for Hungarians spending their holidays there, he added. At present seven European Union members have consular offices in Miami, including Germany, Italy and the Netherlands, but Hungary is the first central European country to set up one there, he said. Political and economic relations with the US have been "dynamically expanding and improving", Szijjarto said. US companies represent the second largest investment community in Hungary and the US is Hungary's largest non-EU export market, he added.