Mr. Gábor Szentiványi, political director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Hungary, had consultations with Mr. Pieter de Gooijer political director on 3^rd October in The Hague. Current foreign and security policy issues were on the agenda, as Dutch – Hungarian cooperation in Afghanistan, political effects of the global financial crisis and supporting the Euro-Atlantic cooperation of states of the Western-Balkans and the Caucasus.