Lieutenant General Ferenc Kajári
14:33 May 9, 2023Lieutenant General Ferenc Kajári was born on 5th July 1967 in Budapest, Hungary. He is married to Veronika and has a daughter and a son.
Upon graduating from the military secondary school, he joined the Kossuth Lajos Military College of the Hungarian Defence Forces in 1985. He commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in 1988 with an armoured reconnaissance officer degree and a general engineer degree.
Between 1988 and 1996, Major General Kajári served in various Infantry Brigades and MI positions as a platoon leader, company commander, S2 staff officer and Brigade S2.
In 1996, he was assigned to the Hungarian Engineer Contingent of IFOR and served as an S2 and liaison officer in the staff. On completion of his deployment, his career continued at the Ministry of Defence, where he served in a number of positions, most notably as the Aide-de-Camp to the Deputy State Secretary for NATO Integration. In 1998 he was selected to deploy in one of the newly established Partnership for Peace staff positions, and was assigned to the Headquarters of SACLANT, where he served in the PfP staff element until Hungary’s NATO accession in 1999 when he repositioned to serve in the Education and Training Department until his return to Hungary in 2001.
From 2001 he was serving in different staff positions at the J2 Directorate of the Hungarian Defence Forces. In the same year he enrolled to the National Defence University, and in 2004 earned his Master’s degree in military leadership.
In 2004 he deployed to Darfur as an EU representative and Military Observer of the African Union Mission in the Sudan (AMIS), where by the second half of his tour he organised the S2 section in his sector and became the sector S2 chief. In 2007 he deployed to Afghanistan, where he served as the first Hungarian Chief CJ2, ACOS in RC-North of ISAF.
Between 2014 and 2015 he attended the General Staff Course of the National University of Public Service, where he earned the “ZRÍNYI Award” of the class of 2015.
In 2016 he was appointed as the director of the Military National Security Service Intelligence Directorate. In 2017 he was promoted to Brigadier General, and in 2021 to Major General, and in 2023 to Lieutenant General.
2021 marks his most noted tour as he was selected and deployed to the position of Commander of the NATO mission KFOR until the hand-over in 2022 when he continued his service as the director of the Military National Security Service Intelligence Directorate until his promotion to which took up to his new assignment to Deputy Chief of Defence Staff on 8th May 2023
Professional visit to the Hellenic Air Force Academy in Athens
15:08 October 24, 2022
In early October, the National University of Public Service Faculty of Military Science and Officer Training (NUPS FMSOT) staff from Szolnok paid a professional visit to the Hellenic Air Force Academy (HAFA) in Athens.
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Deputy commander of Hungarian Defence Forces visits Germany
13:22 October 24, 2022
Lieutenant General Zsolt Sándor, Deputy Commander, Hungarian Defence Forces recently paid a dayslong visit to Germany, where he met with, among others, Lieutenant General Markus Laubenthal, Deputy Inspector General of the Bundeswehr and with Lieutenant General Gert Nultsch, Head of Planning Directorate, Federal Ministry of Defence of Germany.
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Commander of Hungarian Defence Forces holds discussion with Chief of Defence of North Macedonia
12:56 October 20, 2022
On 19 October, Lieutenant General Romulusz Ruszin-Szendi PhD, Commander, Hungarian Defence Forces received, with military honors, Lieutenant General Vasko Gjurchinovski, Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces of North Macedonia in Heroes’ Square, Budapest.
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Powerful Word 2022
18:12 October 19, 2022
The Powerful Word 2022 exercise was held between October 5-14 in the Czech Republic, in which the HDF Cyber and Information Operations Centre’s soldiers took part in. For the first time, this year the exercise was multinational, involving the Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia and Hungary.
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MINISTER OF DEFENCE SZALAY-BOBROVNICZKY: HUNGARY CALLS FOR AN IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE AND PEACE NEGOTIATIONS
10:29 October 15, 2022
Hungary is on the side of peace, the return of peace into Europe as soon as possible is in the country’s interest, therefore our country calls for an immediate ceasefire and peace negotiations, the Minister of Defence announced in Brussels, after the two-day conference of the defence ministers of the NATO member states, on Friday, 14th October.
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KFOR MISSION HAS NEW COMMANDER
11:26 October 11, 2022
In Kosovo, the Hungarian command year in the KFOR mission has come to an end. On Monday, 10th October, Major General Ferenc Kajári handed over the command of KFOR to Italian Major General Angelo Michele Ristuccia in a ceremony at the Camp Film City, in Pristina.
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MANDATE OF KFOR COMMANDER MAJOR GENERAL FERENC KAJÁRI EXPIRES
11:21 October 11, 2022
On Monday, 10th October, the mandate of Major General Ferenc Kajári expired. For the past year, the Hungarian general has been Commander of KFOR, the international peacekeeping force operating in Kosovo under the command of NATO.
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SECURITY ISSUES ON THE AGENDA
11:13 October 11, 2022
The Hungarian Deputy State Secretary for Defence Policy of the Ministry of Defence participated in the security policy forum held in Budva, Montenegro. Mr László Hajnik had a discussion with the security experts present at the conference with regional and global trends, and current challenges on its agenda. This year, the main issues of the conference's panel discussions and presentations included – among others – the security challenges affecting the Western Balkan region.
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DECI Chiefs of Defence meet in Slovenia
10:50 October 6, 2022
The Chiefs of Defence of the Defence Cooperation Initiative (DECI) met in Postojna, Slovenia on Wednesday, 5 October. Hungary was represented at the meeting by Lieutenant General Romulusz Ruszin-Szendi PhD, Commander, Hungarian Defence Forces.
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Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky: Military-to-military relations are excellent between Croatia and Hungary
12:30 September 30, 2022
The military-to-military relations are excellent between Croatia and Hungary, said Defence Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky after holding a discussion with his Croatian counterpart on Thursday, 29 September in Budapest.