The Hungarian Government has concluded a
program training thirteen young Iraqi diplomats at the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs. The curriculum of the training course was compiled by the faculty
of the Corvinus University in Budapest, Hungary.
The diplomats were also exposed to the
workings of the Hungarian MFA with regard to diplomatic protocol,
participation in international organizations, press relations and public
diplomacy, personnel selection, and continuing professional training.
The visit by the Iraqi diplomats was a
part of an ongoing effort by the Government of Hungary to assist the new
Iraqi democracy through training Iraqi professionals in agriculture, civil
engineering, water management, privatization, local administration, and
law enforcement, and comes on top of material assistance already provided
in the form of medical and military equipment, including seventy-seven
tanks shipped to Iraq last month, which are
already being paraded there by the 9th Iraqi Army Division (see picture below).
