Valerie Huber said the international coalition would not have survived without Hungary, because following Brazil’s withdrawal from it, it was Hungary that offered to host their office in Budapest.
Valerie Huber, one of the initiators of the international agreement on women and family policy, said Hungary’s role could expand in the wake of the United States rejoining the Geneva Consensus Declaration in line with a decision by US President Donald Trump.
Huber who is CEO-president of the Washington-based Institute for Women’s Health told MTI on Wednesday that the international coalition would not have survived without Hungary, because following Brazil’s withdrawal from it, it was Hungary that offered to host their office in Budapest.
She added that Trump’s decision about the US rejoining the declaration only four days after taking office was also a sign that US foreign policy under the new administration would be very different from that in the past four years. She noted that Joe Biden had decided as the previous president that the US would leave the family policy declaration.
Szabolcs Takacs, Hungary’s ambassador to the US, told MTI that Hungary had been consistent in remaining party to the declaration also in the past four years. Trump, his advisors and colleagues were aware of Budapest’s dedication to the principles supported by the declaration and appreciated this.
“This could be another significant element of Hungary-US relations, and it is highly symbolic in social policy cooperation, demonstrating that both sides think along the same lines about the future of a healthy society,” he said.
The Geneva Consensus Declaration was signed by five countries including Hungary on a US initiative in the autumn of 2020.
