On January 11, 2006, Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing, who stopped over Budapest on his trip to Africa, held working talks with his Hungarian counterpart Somogyi Ferenc.

Both sides made positive comments on the sound development of bilateral relations, holding that they should make joint efforts to implement important consensus reached between their leaders, maintain high-level exchanges and political dialogue, promote exchanges and cooperation in the area of economy & trade and push bilateral friendly cooperative partnership for continuous development.

Li emphasized that China attaches great importance to Hungary's important role in the EU and would like to work with it to strengthen China-EU political exchanges and strategic cooperation. Ferenc reaffirmed that the Hungarian government resolutely pursues the one-China policy.

Both sides also exchanged views on the Afghan issue, the Iranian nuclear issue and the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue.