11.   US chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General John Shalikashvili, visited Hungarian troops, peppering platoon leader Captain Zoltan Szalai with questions about the training.

12.   NATO and Hungarian troops will conduct exercises next month to practice the joint command of peacekeeping forces, organisers said Friday.

13.   The Hungarian troops will first travel to Austria, where they will undergo two weeks of training, MTI said.

14.   The new bridge was constructed by Hungarian troops belonging to the multinational force.