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Minister’s speech in the UN: Hungary will reject any kind of migrant quota systems
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Vaccines are the only solution to fighting the coronavirus pandemic “because only vaccination can protect us”, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in his address at general debate during the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Thursday local time.
Szijjártó told the assembly that the pandemic was an attack on the entire globe, an attack on all nations and citizens, the ministry said in a statement released early on Friday. “And since the attack is global, defence has to be global as well,” he added. “This means that we have to enable ourselves to be able to give vaccine to everybody and this is a matter of capacity,” Szijjártó said.
The international community must be able to give vaccine to everybody in the world and this requires vaccine to be manufactured in as many locations as possible, he added.
The international community must be able to give vaccine to everybody in the world and this requires vaccine to be manufactured in as many locations as possible, he added.
“It’s not an ideological and not a political question because saving lives of the people must not be neither ideological nor a political issue.
That’s why we urge the regulators, the international, regional and national authorities to carry out a purely professional fact-based procedures when they authorise different types of vaccines,” he said.
Szijjártó said it had also become clear that the pandemic not only constituted a health-care related crisis but an economic one, too. As a result, during the last year and a half the global flow of direct investments fell by 42 percent and there was a 5.3 percent drop in the volume of global trade, he added.
“Now the most important duty of ours is to save jobs — as many as it is possible,” he said. Szijjártó said it was also important to focus attention on families, as the Hungarian government was doing. “Families who raise children; because these families have worn a double burden,” he said, noting parents who had to go to work to keep their country runing while looking after their children while schools and kindergartens remained closed.
Another consequence of Covid was that “a big part of our life has been pushed to the digital space”, he said.
Parents and children have created a vulnerable and inexperienced group of users of digital space,
and this kind of group is a perfect target for cyber criminals, Szijjártó said.
“That’s why we urge putting together strict international regulation which can protect our children and families from the spread of extremist ideologies on the internet, of sexual propaganda and cyber bullying,” he added. He also talked about the dangers of further migratory waves in the world. “The pandemic and migration together construct a vicious circle. The more serious the health-care related and economic related impacts of the covid are the more people will hit the road and migrate. And the more people are involved in the migratory flows, the more accelerated the virus will spread. So nowadays migration does not only constitute the already well-known cultural, civilisation or secuity related risks but very serious health-care risks, as well,” he said.
“That’s why we urge putting together strict international regulation which can protect our children and families from the spread of extremist ideologies on the internet, of sexual propaganda and cyber bullying,” he added. He also talked about the dangers of further migratory waves in the world. “The pandemic and migration together construct a vicious circle. The more serious the health-care related and economic related impacts of the covid are the more people will hit the road and migrate. And the more people are involved in the migratory flows, the more accelerated the virus will spread. So nowadays migration does not only constitute the already well-known cultural, civilisation or secuity related risks but very serious health-care risks, as well,” he said.
There are few countries in Africa or the Middle east where the population is happy. They cannot all leave and move to the EU. Accepting illegal migrants does not allow for citizens of warring countries to make peace. Illegal migration allow countries to continue civil wars for years. It is time for EU Administration to try to make peace in the warring countries.