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Merkel in Hungary to discuss trade, energy issues
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 20 - 08 - 2007

The leaders of Germany and
Hungary are expected to discuss trade and energy issues at
a meeting in Budapest Tuesday.
Also on the agenda for German Chancellor Angela Merkel's
visit is the new negotiating effort aimed at resolving
Kosovo's postwar status and the demands of the province's
ethnic Albanians for independence from Serbia.
Merkel will meet with President Laszlo Solyom, Prime
Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany and other senior officials on the
one-day visit. She will also deliver a speech at Budapest's
German-language Gyula Andrassy University.
Germany is Hungary's largest trading partner, accounting
for roughly 30 percent of its exports and 28 percent of its
imports. Hungarian exports to Germany in the first five
months of 2007 totaled ¤8.1 billion (US$10.9 billion) while
imports from Germany stood at ¤7.6 billion (US$10.2
billion).
Merkel's talks were also expected to touch on efforts to
forge a common energy policy for the European Union.
Gyurcsany's foreign policy adviser, Karoly Banai, said
Kosovo was a «decisive question,» and as such would
likely be discussed Tuesday, according to Hungary's state
news agency MTI.
Serbia's Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica is to visit
Hungary at the end of September.
Kosovo, formally remains a southern province of Serbia,
though the territory has been a NATO and U.N. protectorate
since the end of the war between Serb forces and ethnic
Albanian separatists in 1999.
On Wednesday, Merkel will travel to London to meet with
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and watch the
England-Germany soccer friendly at Wembley stadium.


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