If there is such a request, Hungary stands ready to continue its presence in Afghanistan after 2014, the end of the mandate, Hungarian President János Áder said after his discussions at the NATO Headquarters in Brussels.

In the morning of December15, soldiers of the Hungarian-American Military Advisory Team (MAT) came into fighting contact in Afghanistan’s Kilagaj region. The night before, the MAT-base was attacked by insurgents' rocket fire.

Two Hungarian soldiers died and four were injured when a vehicle belonging to the convoy of the Provincial Reconstruction Team of the Hungarian Army in Afghanistan turned over in a traffic accident at 10.15 CET Tuesday.

Hungary is going ahead with plans to upgrade equipment for its PRT mission in Afghanistan in spite of a call by President Hamid Karzai to demobilise the NATO reconstruction teams, the daily Népszabadság daily said on Thursday.

The Hungarian army's Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) based in Afghanistan's Baghlan Province does not participate in armed action and has never had a mandate to do so, the Defence Ministry said in reaction to a report by Wikileaks.

A Hungarian soldier seriously injured in an attack in Afghanistan two weeks ago died this Tuesday in the military hospital Honvédkórház in Budapest. He is the second mortal casualty of attack on home-bound Hungarian troops.

As of October this year, Hungary will again be the leading nation running the area at Kabul International Airport used by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). The commanding officer will be a major-general of the Hungarian Army.

A Hungarian soldier died and three were injured as their convoy came under fire Monday morning in Afghanistan. The convoy was transporting home-bound Hungarian troops of the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT).