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Serbia’s elections – FM Szijjártó in Belgrade: Serbia, Hungary should cooperate on rebooting economies
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Péter Szijjártó, the minister of foreign affairs and trade, in Belgrade on Wednesday, said the time had come take action to reboot their respective economies, and both Serbia and Hungary could successfully do so by working closely together.
At a joint press conference with his Serbian counterpart, Szijjártó said the epidemic had highlighted how much East-West infrastructure passed through Serbia and Hungary. “We should benefit from that, so the coming months and years will be about major joint infrastructure developments.”
Szijjártó said
the pandemic had proven “more clearly than ever that we Hungarians and Serbs are closely interdependent … this relationship has strengthened during the pandemic”.
The border between the two countries was reopened in record speed, he said, adding that Serbia was the first country Hungary was able to open its border with in full and the first non-EU country to open a border with an EU member state.
Szijjártó noted that both countries are working together to upgrade the Belgrade-Budapest rail line, to renovate the Subotica-Szeged rail line and to build a new gas pipeline to transport gas from the Turkish Stream pipeline from the south to central Europe, with capacity to be expanded to almost 10 billion cubic meters in the coming years.