Hungarian PM says Georgian counterpart has “managed to maintain national identity, culture despite challenges”
The Hungarian official extended his gratitude to his Georgian counterpart for attending the event. Photo: Government Administration
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Viktor Orbán, the Hungarian Prime Minister, on Thursday told the opening session of the Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual event hosted this year in Budapest, Hungary, that his Georgian counterpart Irakli Kobakhidze had “managed to maintain Georgia’s national identity and culture despite challenges”.
Orbán told the event Kobakhidze was regarded for being a “great chess player” in the country’s domestic politics, as chess was a “geopolitical game” in the “centuries-old history” of Georgia.
Despite all the challenges, the power, how to maintain the national identity and culture in the country, this is really the skill of a chess player, a grandmaster”, he said.
The Hungarian official extended his gratitude to his Georgian counterpart for attending the event.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze on Thursday told the opening session of the Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual event hosted this year in Budapest, Hungary, that “homeland, language and faith” were the “three main pillars” forming Georgia’s “national identity” since the country declared Christianity as the state religion in the fourth century CE.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze on Thursday said “recent and anticipated global developments” underscored the “imperative to further fortify our efforts in safeguarding our centuries-old traditions and national identity”.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze is set to participate in the Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual political conference hosted in Hungary on Thursday.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze on Thursday said he was confident that “in the near future” Georgia would attain a “full membership of the European family”, in comments at the opening session of the Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual event hosted this year in Budapest, Hungary.