(18 Dec 2023)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Budapest - 18 December 2023
1. Various of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan driving in Turkish made electric car
2. Wide of Erdogan and Orban entering briefing
3. Wide of briefing
4. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish President:
“We are focusing on a diplomatic solution in Ukraine. We encourage that and we voiced it from the beginning. A diplomatic solution needs to be found. We should update the Istanbul Process. In regard to Gaza, we agreed that the violence has to be stopped as soon as possible.”
5. Various of leaders signing documents
6. Close of media
7. Wide of briefing
8. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Viktor Orban, Hungarian Prime Minister:
“In the language of diplomacy, this is the closest expression of friendly, fraternal and political cooperation. It includes the intention of the two nations to work as closely in the future as two countries possibly can.”
9. Various of Orban and Erdogan shaking hands
STORYLINE:
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban signed a special strategic partnership agreement in Budapest on Monday.

“In the language of diplomacy, this is the closest expression of friendly, fraternal and political cooperation," Orban said of the deal.

"It includes the intention of the two nations to work as closely in the future as two countries possibly can," he added.

He was joined in a briefing by Erdogan after the agreement was signed, where Erdogan focused on the current Ukraine and Israel-Hamas wars.

“We are focusing on a diplomatic solution in Ukraine," he advised.

"In regard to Gaza, we agreed that the violence has to be stopped as soon as possible," he added.

Erdogan's visit to Hungary's capital, his second this year, came as the two countries remain the only NATO members not to have ratified Sweden's bid to join the trans-Atlantic military alliance.

The delays have frustrated other NATO allies, who were swift in accepting Sweden and Finland into the alliance after the neighboring countries dropped their long-standing military neutrality after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.

Erdogan's visit also marks the 100th anniversary of the establishment of Hungarian-Turkish diplomatic relations, which the two countries will celebrate with the year-long Hungarian-Turkish Cultural Year starting on 18 December.

AP video shot by Balazs Kaufmann.

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