Szijjarto discusses pandemic, border measures with Austrian counterpart

Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto discussed bilateral cooperation against the coronavirus pandemic and border measures with Alexander Schallenberg, his Austrian counterpart, at the Austria-Hungary border on Thursday. At the meeting on the Austrian side of the border, Szijjarto said the two countries were working together closely to tackle the pandemic. Hungary and Austria helped repatriate each other's citizens during the first wave of the pandemic last spring and made sure that transit and freight traffic between them ran unimpeded, he said. Recently the two countries renewed consultations with a view to making it easier for Hungarian commuters to cross into Austria and back, he added.