On March 4, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Jerusalem with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz in what was known in Israel as the "vaccine summit." On March 11, Netanyahu repeated a similar trilateral operation, meeting in his Jerusalem office with Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
By the end of the March 4 meeting, the three leaders had agreed to establish a vaccine alliance and cooperate in ventures for producing large quantities of vaccines. The March 11 was about cooperating in the research, development and production of vaccines.
"This is a delight to welcome two close friends, Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary and Prime Minister Andrej Babis of Czech Republic. … In the spirt of that friendship, they came here to Jerusalem to see how we can cooperate on COVID. We discussed a number of ideas. The first is exchanging 'green' passports, as we've done with several countries already. It would be an important addition to add Hungary and the Czech Republic to this but equally to see how we can involve both Czech Republic and Hungary in the international plant that we want to build here in Israel for the production of the vaccines of the future," said Netanyahu.
The communiqué from Netanyahu’s office added that the three leaders held a working meeting with their countries' professional teams. The heads of government and their representatives from the ministries of foreign affairs and health discussed the fight against the coronavirus, including exit strategies and travel.
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