Due to vaccine purchases and the long-term gas supply agreement, “it is not an exaggeration to say that 2021 was the most successful year” in Hungarian-Russian relations, Péter Szijjártó, Hungary’s minister of foreign affairs and trade, wrote on Facebook after meeting his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Stockholm on Thursday.
Szijjártó said he and his Russian counterpart reviewed the main areas of bilateral cooperation and agreed on a five-point plan of action for next year.
Priority goals include starting the construction of the new blocks of the Paks nuclear power plant, launching the production of Sputnik vaccines in Hungary, increasing the number of freight trains entering Hungary at Zahony and operated by a joint venture to be established on December 16,
finalising joint space research projects,
and boosting Hungarian agriculture sales to Russia, Szijjártó said.
Close cooperation between East and West could enhance the success of the international community’s actions in the areas of health and security, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in Stockholm on Thursday.
The ministry said Szijjártó told a ministerial meeting of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) that there were significant global challenges in the areas of health and security. The new variants of coronavirus posed considerably more serious health threats than previous variants, he said. Additionally,
migration waves are intensifying, partly as a result of the failure of the Afghanistan mission and partly due to other conflicts,
he added.
“The spread of the pandemic and migratory trends can only be stopped if we can build strong-East-West cooperation,” he said. Commenting on new virus variants, Szijjártó said there was a global race for time. At the same time, there are successful, high-quality scientific-medical communities in the East as well as the West that could be even more effective in the fight against the pandemic if they were working together, he said.
“More people could be saved if political and ideological considerations were removed from the horizon,”
he said. The same applies to migration, especially in the current situation when developments in Afghanistan have created a real danger of further mass migration waves towards Europe, he added. It would be important to develop cooperation with central Asian countries to protect their borders and halt migration from Afghanistan, he said.
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Unfortunately, EU’s hostile actions are forcing Hungary closer and closer to Russia, China and Muslim dictators such as Erdogan of Turkey and Aliyev of Azerbaijan.
It didn’t have to be that way. It is like ww2 when western “democracies” pushed Hungary to Hitler.
They never accept responsibility for their arrogant and destructive behavior. Slime.
Hungary would do well to become neutral and avoid being caught up in American/NATO military misadventures. The US is doing all it can to provoke WW3 with the Russians and Chinese over the Crimea, Donetsk and the Donbas regions who overwhelmingly voted to leave the Ukraine after the US instigated Coup in Kiev. The US meddling in the China Sea is also another powder keg in regards to Tiawan. It is NOT the US business in either situation. Russia and China are going to win if WW3 gets going and all who hitch their wagon to the US and NATO will find themselves under foreign rule once again. and rebuilding all the collateral damage from the war. The US is a dying empire that is financially and morally bankrupt. Does Hungary need to subject itself to another mistake of chosing the wrong side? I think not.