Prime Cabinet Secretary Musali Mudavadi has left the country for an official visit to Budapest, Hungary.
During the three-day trip, Mudavadi is poised to sign several Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) on Agriculture and Education.
In a statement to newsrooms by the Ministry’s Press Services Director Jacob Ngetich, Mudavadi will also have an opportunity to meet President Tama Sulyok.
His visit follows an invitation from his Foreign Affairs counterpart, Péter Szijjártó, who visited Kenya early last year, where the two discussed issues of mutual interest between our countries.
The two MoUs, according to him, will cement Kenya and Hungary’s aspiration to promote bilateral partnerships and open up new avenues for collaboration in these areas, among others, owing to the enormous potential available.
Hungary is an important partner to Kenya in the Education sector and offers Kenyan students 200 scholarships annually through the Stipendium Hungaricum Programme.
“In the agriculture sector, Minister Péter Szijjártó and Mudavadi will firm up the working arrangement on the exchange of expertise and best agricultural practices to enhance agricultural productivity in both our countries,” Ngetich stated.
Hungary, he said, has already established a demonstration farm in one of Kenya's agriculturally productive counties, designed to showcase Hungarian agricultural technology and innovation and serve as a model for modern and sustainable farming practices.
According to the statement, the MOU on agriculture will improve levels of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) from the two countries in diverse fields of the economy, especially in the agricultural value-addition industries.
Other areas of interest that Mudavadi will pursue with the Hungarian government include the energy sector, where he will push for the implementation of the MOU for Cooperation in the Field of Training and Education of Atomic Industry on the peaceful uses of Nuclear Energy signed during Szijjártó’s visit.
The MOU agreed on the exchange capacity for the use of nuclear energy as an alternative source of clean, renewable energy.
Additionally, Mudavadi and Szijjártó will push for the revitalization of the relations between the two countries’ long-standing relationship that dates back to when Kenya gained independence in 1963.
Hungary was the 6th country to establish a Mission in Nairobi in 1964.
