“Uzbekistan is sending 500 thousand face masks to Hungary; the cargo plane shipping these will be arriving on Tuesday evening”, the Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said at an online press conference on Tuesday.
“Uzbekistan has already sent 150 thousand face masks to Hungary, which arrived on 28 March and have been distributed to healthcare institutions”, he recalled. “Uzbekistan has now donated another 500 thousand face masks; they are already on route to Baku, to where a plane has set out from Budapest, and after the cargo is transferred the plane will be arriving back in Budapest on Tuesday evening with the shipment”, he said.
“It is a wonderful thing that even in these difficult times there are friendly nations on which we can rely”, the Minster highlighted. “The list of countries that have requested assistance from Hungary is very long, and we have helped many, but the list of countries that have offered assistance is very short”, he stated. “What these countries have in common is that they all lie to the east of Hungary, and with the exception of China they are all members of the Turkic Council, in which Hungary has had observer status for almost two years now”, he added.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade also said that in the interests of assuring that cooperation is as good as possible in the long term, Hungary has increased the number of scholarship places for students from Uzbekistan to attend Hungarian universities from thirty to one hundred.
