Events

At Hungary’s initiative, the UN General Assembly designated 5 September as the International Day of Charity, to be celebrated annually around the world.

The 4th World Conference of Speakers of Parliament, convened by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), kickstarted on 31 August 2015. The Hungarian delegation is led by H.E. Mr. László Kövér, Speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly. Among the distinguished participants are Mr. Saber Hossain Chowdhury, President of the IPU and Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations and this year's keynote speaker was Mr. Forest Whitaker.

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On 2 August UN Member States have reached agreement on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that will be adopted this September at the Sustainable Development Summit in New York.

On 20 July, 2015,Hungary, in cooperation with Viet-Nam and the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF), organized a full-room side-event on the margins of the Post-2015 intergovernmental negotiations. Participants reviewed national perspectives on implementation frameworks based on individual country experiences, as well as entered into a dynamic discussion on the role of, and challenges related to, data gathering and statistics.

H.E. Ambassador Katalin Bogyay, Permanent Representative of Hungary to the United Nations delivered a statement at the High-Level Event on Climate Change organized by the President of the United Nations General Assembly on 29 June 2015.