Foreign minister Szijjártó at WHO GA: Politicising intl organisations ‘extremely dangerous’
One of the fallouts of the war in Ukraine is that international organizations have become “over-politicized,” which the Hungarian government considers “extremely dangerous,” the foreign minister said in his address to the general assembly of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Geneva on Tuesday.
Péter Szijjártó said, “crises can only be resolved successfully if responses are professional and based on common sense.”
According to a statement from the foreign ministry, Szijjártó added that the war in Ukraine posed a “new crisis, which could be even more serious than the almost-forgotten coronavirus pandemic”, resulting in huge geopolitical changes, including politicisation of international agencies.
“One of the lessons to be learned from the years of the pandemic is that fighting epidemics must not be considered an ideological issue,” he said. “Had Hungary approached the pandemic on a political or ideological basis, we would have had several thousand more victims.”
“Instead, we used the fantastic achievements of scientists irrespective of which geographical direction they had come from, whether from the East or from the West.”
Hungary, therefore, implemented “the fastest and most successful” vaccination campaign in the European Union, he insisted.
Concerning Hungary’s upcoming EU presidency, the minister said the government would have two health-related priorities. Given that cardiovascular problems are a leading cause of mortality in the EU, the Hungarian presidency will prepare a European cardiovascular strategy and action plan, proposing a “joint platform to coordinate clinical testing and with more emphasis on prevention and rehabilitation,” he said on the general assembly of the WHO.
Further, he noted that the number of organ donations had dropped by 25 percent due to the coronavirus pandemic, and he proposed preparing an European transplant strategy.
read also:
- Hungarian government says EU politicians want to take young people to the Ukrainian front – details HERE
- PM Orbán wants Hungary to be non-participant in the NATO: will Budapest be expelled?
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No agreement originating from Tedros and World Health Organization should ever be signed. It is a power grab.
Good point by Mr. Szijjártó! Let´s have an independent inquiry as to how Hungary managed during the almost forgotten Coronavirus pandemic. I am sure there will be plenty of lessons learned – and we can show the EU how well we did, in comparison!
The all-knowing Norbert had the perfect answer to solve the problem of COVID. While all European and North American Nations struggled to find a solution to save as many citizens as possible, all-knowing Norbert sat at home and refused to share the perfect solution.
All countries and all governments, advised by their health departments, tried different solutions until a serum was half perfected.
There is only one solution according to all-knowing Norbert, kill all citizens all over the world who did their best to cope with an unexpected disaster.