Europe’s interest in preventing mass migration waves from Afghanistan has made Iran a key ally in the region, Hungary’s foreign minister, said in Tehran on Thursday.
If mass migration waves from Afghanistan cannot be prevented, they should at least be prevented from reaching Europe, Péter Szijjártó told a press conference held with Hossein Amirabdollahian, his Iranian counterpart, adding that this made Iran’s role in the region more important.
Iran took in more than 3.5 million Afghan refugees by the end of 2020, Szijjártó noted, citing estimates from the United Nations indicating that it could admit some 300,000 more.
“It is clear that if these people set off towards Europe, we will be presented with serious security and epidemiological risks,” the minister said.
Meanwhile, he said
Hungary has delivered 100,000 doses of the Sinopharm Covid jab to Iran with a view to increasing the vaccination rate of the country’s Afghan refugees.
As regards the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, Szijjarto said Hungary backed any proposal aimed at reviving it. “In our view the world is dealing with enough challenges as it is, so it is all the more important to have a chance to end certain conflicts,” he said, adding that the world would be a safer place if the West could rebuild its ties with Iran.
Until then, Hungary is prepared to seek the closest possible cooperation with Iran in the areas not affected by the sanctions, Szijjártó said. Amirabdollahian thanked Hungary for the vaccines and welcomed the new agreement on the two countries’ mutual recognition of each other’s Covid immunity certificates.
Tehran is working to reach similar agreements with other countries, too, and to ensure wider approval for the Iran-developed jab,
he said.
Szijjártó is scheduled to hold talks with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and the country’s economy minister later on Thursday.
Szijjártó is scheduled to hold talks with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and the country’s economy minister later on Thursday.
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Source: MTI
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This little szijjarto boy is a joke. His insatiable ego tours all dictatorial countries on the planet, does not seem to forget any, even the world’s ugliest theocracy, then he gets a quick pat on the shoulder, some vague promise of something, and there he goes lobbying for his new friend. I can only imagine how his counterparts must be laughing behind his back. A real embarassment for Hungary.
Iranian student brought COVID to Hungary and when quarantined, they threw the furniture out the window. Some married to Hungarian women were demanding free housing, etc.. Their behavior was unacceptable. Hungary should not encourage savages to attend its universities. Hungary should not encourage travel from Iran, most will want to migrate to Germany and Hungary will be stuck with them.
Whenever I see a photo of szijjarto I always feel that this guy is a CREEP.
At least Iran isn’t overthrowing backed governments (ex; the United States and Latin America) nor did wage illegal wars (ex: US and the Iraq war).
For how much Mario loves to “defend human rights.” He is defending one of the worst human rights offenders in the world, namely the United States of America. In fact Mario, if you love to bash Iran then why don’t you start bashing the allies of the US who have done a lot worse than Iran, such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar?
The realist, this article is not about the U.S.A.
You are off topic.
No Mario, it is about the US indirectly. Everytime you post comments about countries like Iran or China, which are always negatice You tend to ignore the massive human rights infringement by the US. It isn’t Iran or China have killed countless Muslims through drone strikes.
If you are going to be critical about Hungarian’s foreign relations, perhaps you can first start looking at how Hungary “allies” have used human rights to cover up their crimes.
The Realist, you are wrong. I am not an advocate of the U.S. and its foreign affairs policies, not at all. In fact, I am strongly against them. I just stick to the topic. And I believe that Hungary is entitled to secure stronger alliances with anti-Nato countries such as Russia, China and others, but in that case it should have the balls to exit Nato. Same thing with the EU. You are in or you are out.