Hungary is still receiving the technology needed to produce Sputnik
The political discussion has reached that Hungary will still receive the vaccine against the Russian Sputnik coronavirus, the technology needed to produce the vaccine, for the National Vaccine Factory currently under construction, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in Moscow on Thursday.
According to the statement, the head of the ministry will continue the talks with the Russian Minister of Health Mikhail Murasko after stating that Hungary may have benefited from the establishment of a high level of health cooperation with Russia. As he said, the government requires the necessary vaccine for the health and lives of one million people who can buy it, which is considered desirable for Hungary to run the fastest vaccination campaign in Europe in the spring.
“We have now resolved to take cooperation on vaccines to a new, larger dimension,” he announced after a political agreement was reached in Moscow on Thursday on the arrangements for the production of Sputnik.
He emphasized that the demand for the Russian vaccine was high worldwide, so that Hungary had a strong economic interest in taking part of the production of the preparation, and thus entered the global market.
Mikhail Murasko informed Péter Szijjártó that the World Health Organization (WHO) procedure for recognizing the Sputnik vaccine was accelerating. According to the Russian government, it will sign the order with the organization on Wednesday, on the basis of which it will conduct this procedure.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade emphasized that Hungary had gained positive experience in the use of Russian vaccines and would be happy to provide information on this during the WHO proceedings.
He announced that a meeting of the Hungarian – Russian Joint Economic Committee would be convened by the end of November, Mikhail Murasko would join the association, and the details of Sputnik ‘s production in Hungary would be clarified there.
(MTI / Felvidék.ma)