Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organization, will soon pay a visit to Hungary to attend the official inauguration of WHO’s Budapest center.
Following talks with Ghebreyesus in Geneva, Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, praised the WHO chief in a Facebook post as “a leader who has retained WHO as a politics-free, professional organization, which came to be crucial in defeating coronavirus”. Minister Szijjártó and Ghebreyesus agreed that “protecting the health of people has nothing to do with geopolitics … viruses will not observe borders, political approaches, or geopolitical conflicts … saving health requires a united, global approach.” “In health there is no room for an East-West dispute,” Minister Szijjártó said. Concerning a recent rise in coronavirus cases, Minister Szijjártó quoted Ghebreyesus as saying: “The world is incomparably more prepared now than it was 3 or 4 years ago … we have the necessary vaccines, the natural immunity that has developed since then and broad knowledge about the virus itself.” “Nobody wants to see the lockdowns and quarantines again, and luckily it seems that they won’t be necessary,” Minister Szijjártó added.