The US strengthens the relationship with Hungary. Sanctions for an important politician were abolished
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke earlier on Tuesday with the head of Hungarian diplomacy Peter Szijjarto and informed him about the decision of the administration of Donald Trump in the Rogan case – said a spokeswoman for the Department of State of Tammy Bruce.
The Ministry of Finance justified the removal of it from the list of people covered by the sanctions of “incompatibility” of these funds with “US foreign policy interests”. Rubio and Szijjarto also discussed the strengthening of the cooperation of the US and Hungary in “basic issues” and economic – says the message of Bruce.
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At the beginning of March, during the first meeting of Rubio and Szijjarto, the Secretary of State was to promise that in the near future he would review all funds, “with the help of which Biden's administration tried to harm American-Hungarian relations.” Among them, there are also sanctions imposed on Rogan.
Rogan was covered by sanctions in January this year, before the inauguration of Donald Trump; The Ministry of Finance then announced that the retorts are a reaction to the corruption system he built, consisting in granting contracts and public funds “to the loyal supporters against him and the Fidesz party”.
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The then US ambassador to Budapest David Pressman issued a message in which he wrote that “high -ranking government officials in Hungary use their position to enrich themselves […] Moving significant funds to your private accounts. Rogan is the main architect, contractor and beneficiary of this corruption system. “
Reuters noticed that Rogan has been a close associate of Orban for decades, he was involved in his election campaigns and was responsible for the “government media machine”; Orban himself is a favorite of the Magic Movement supporters (Make America Great Again) and enjoys the sympathy of Trump himself.
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Conferences of national and extremely conservative CPAC Hungary, which are a branch of the original CPAC conferences organized in the USA, are held in Budapest.
Trump, who undertook the Prime Minister of Hungary in Mar-A-Lago, used to say that he was a “wonderful man”, and that “there is no one wiser and better leader than Viktor Orban.”
Washington imposed sanctions to Rogan, consisting in the prohibition of entry and blocking all its assets in the USA and American banks, based on the global magnith act, which allows punishment for corruption and violation of human rights.
