Bilateral relations
The Republic of Belarus and Hungary established diplomatic relations on February 12, 1992.
The Embassy of the Republic of Belarus started its work in Budapest in January 2000. The Embassy of Hungary in Minsk was opened in December 2007.
Cooperation with Hungary in recent years has been characterized by the intensification of contacts and an increase of level.
On June 5, 2020, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán paid his first official visit to Belarus. The high-ranking guest was received by President of the Republic of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko.
In April 2023, Sergei Aleinik, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus, paid a visit to Hungary. The programme included meetings with the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and of Agriculture of Hungary, representatives of major Hungarian companies, visits to production facilities, the 11th Meeting of the Belarusian-Hungarian Intergovernmental Commission on Economic Cooperation, and the Belarusian-Hungarian Business Forum.
In October 2023, a visit to Belarus by Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary, was organized for his participation in the First Minsk International Conference on Eurasian Security. During the visit, the Minister was received by Aleksandr Lukashenko, President of the Republic of Belarus.
The dialogue between the two foreign ministries is regular and substantive. Since 2023, six visits by Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary, to Belarus have been organized. More than ten meetings of inter-ministerial working groups on energy, agriculture, education, sport and tourism took place, and consultations were held on political and consular matters, as well as on issues relating to international organisations and regional security.
In 2023-2024, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Belarus and Hungary held talks on the sidelines of the 78th and 79th sessions of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. In addition, Yuri Ambrazevich, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus, and Sergei Khomenko, Deputy Chairperson of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus, met with Péter Sztáray, State Secretary for Security Policy and Energy Security of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary, on the sidelines of the UNECE Regional Forum on Sustainable Development in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2024 and 2025.
Interparliamentary cooperation is actively maintained. In September 2025, a visit to Minsk by Sándor Lezsák, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary, was organized.
With a view to promoting Belarusian experience in the implementation of major nuclear energy infrastructure projects, creating favourable conditions for the supply of municipal machinery and equipment to Hungary, expanding cooperation in the field of sport, and implementing social initiatives, a twinning agreement between the cities of Paks and Ostrovets was signed in Minsk in September 2025.
The legal framework governing bilateral cooperation between the Republic of Belarus and Hungary comprises around 20 international agreements covering trade and economic, scientific and cultural cooperation, legal and taxation matters, as well as cooperation in agriculture, sport, tourism, education, defence and road transport.
Humanitarian and cultural cooperation continues to develop dynamically, facilitated by the bilateral intergovernmental Agreement on Cooperation in Education, Science and Culture signed in 2009.
In September 2025, the Hungarian-Belarusian Friendship Society was established under the auspices of the Embassy. Its membership includes prominent representatives of the Hungarian business, expert and media communities, ministries and government agencies, cultural figures, as well as members of the Belarusian diaspora.
Since 2014, the Hungarian language has been taught at Belarusian State University of Foreign Languages. Since 1994, the Belarusian language has been offered as an elective course at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.
Considerable attention is devoted to bilateral cooperation in the field of preservation of military memorial sites. Regular contacts are maintained between the defence authorities of Belarus and Hungary. Important milestones in bilateral relations were the reburials in the town of Byaroza on 25-26 September 2015 and on 20 September 2018 of the remains of Hungarian servicemen who lost their lives during the Second World War. Joint wreath-laying and flower-laying ceremonies are regularly held at memorials to Soviet soldiers who perished in the territory of Hungary.
