"His handshake is a stronger binding force than any written contract," Viktor Orbán said.

Aleksandar Vucic and Prime Minister Viktor Orbán jointly bid farewell to István Pásztor, under whose leadership VMSZ became a strategic partner of the Hungarian and Serbian governments. We have collected the most beautiful thoughts from the farewell speeches of the Serbian President and Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

Aleksandar Vucic

István Pásztor was not interested in political tricks,

but how many roads will be built in Hungarian villages, how many jobs and factories we can create, and what we can bring here," said Vucic.

"There is one word that I will remember him for, which he used as if the Serbian language was the only language for him. We went out to the terrace of the presidency and looked at all the things we could do together, and that's when we started talking about the Belgrade-Budapest railway line, and I told him that if we had only done that in Serbia, it wouldn't have been enough.

István turned to me and said with a strange hand gesture that this was just a trifle compared to what we accomplished together.

Then he said the Serbian word that we did so much, so much. So much, that was the word he used," said the Serbian president emotionally.

Viktor Orbán said goodbye to István Pásztor, the president of the Vojvodina Hungarian Association

Viktor Orban

István Pásztor was not only a great comrade in arms, but also a true friend, with whom we have known each other since time immemorial."

said the Prime Minister. He recalled: it was no coincidence that he was the first official visitor in May 2010 after the swearing in of the Prime Minister. "I don't even know if he supported us or we supported him at the time, but I remember well the overwhelming weight of shared responsibility," he noted.

His handshake is a stronger binding force than any written contract. He never promised, but undertook, and what he undertook, he always kept to the letter. They knew this in Belgrade as well as in Budapest, and they knew it here in Subotica as well."

– the Hungarian Prime Minister praised István Pásztor.

Featured image: MTI/Zoltán Máthé