FM: NATO should not become anti-China
Following a meeting of NATO foreign ministers, Minister Szijjártó said mutually beneficial cooperation was preferable to rivalry.
Following a meeting of NATO foreign ministers, Minister Szijjártó said mutually beneficial cooperation was preferable to rivalry.
The foreign minister told a forum of the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) dealing with sustainable development that dialogue and connectivity are needed.
Hungary rejects all proposals that risk fracturing economic cooperation between the European Union and China.
“China is a permanent member of the UN Security Council, and can therefore play an important role in preventing an escalation of the war,” Péter Szijjártó said.
Tens of millions of people have already been vaccinated in China and this vaccine had also been used for mass inoculation in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
Gergely Gulyás said 129,860 vaccine doses have arrived from the EU so far, and 91,600 people have received their shots.
Tokaj wines and other Hungarian products are set to be protected on the Chinese market thanks to an agreement between China and the EU.
China recently opened an exhibition at the Hungarian Cultural Institute in Beijing presenting photographs of the empty V4 capitals due to the pandemic restrictions.
Chief Medical Officer Cecília Müller said that flu vaccines were being supplied to general practitioners “continuously”.
The foreign minister said Hungary is in talks with China, Russia and Israel on buying vaccines against the coronavirus once they are developed.
PM Orbán announced the launch of the green bond, which will be used to finance climate-friendly programs in the framework of a climate protection action plan, earlier in February.
The coronavirus emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December and has so far claimed the lives of over 1,000 people worldwide.
The Hungarian woman who was recently hospitalized in the Philippines with symptoms of coronavirus has tested negative and will be released from hospital.