Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó, who is in the Romanian capital attending an informal meeting of EU foreign ministers, discussed, amongst others, the health risks caused by illegal migration processes with Romanian Health Minister Sorina Pintea at a meeting in Bucharest on Thursday.

In a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI, the Hungarian Foreign Minister reported on the fact that he and Sorina Pintea had agreed that illegal migration processes represent an extremely high health risk, because immigrants are bringing rare and/or unknown pathogens and tropical viruses with them into Europe.

“We agreed that we will be procuring the vaccines that provide protection against rare pathogens and viruses jointly, and will be coordinating our healthcare-related positions in international organisations”, Mr. Szijjártó said.

At the meeting, it was also discussed that one of the major markets of the portfolio of Hungarian pharmaceuticals company Richter is Romania, as also corroborated by the fact that the company operates a pharmaceuticals plant in Târgu Mureș (Marosvásárhely), where it employs 560 people, and Hungary exports some 360 million euros worth of pharmaceuticals to Romania, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade informed MTI.

An informal meeting of European Union foreign ministers is being held on Thursday and Friday of this week in Romania, which is the current President of the Council of the European Union. The main topics of discussion at the meeting will be the crises in Syria and Venezuela, in addition to which relations between the EU and China are also on the agenda.

(MTI)