Budapest needs to buy an extra 700 million cubic meters of petroleum gas
Hungary requirements to purchase an extra 700 million cubic meters of flammable gas this year to guarantee its energy security and this is "just incomprehensible" to manage without Russia, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Thursday.
Talking in Moscow at a joint public interview with his Russian partner, Sergey Lavrov, that's what the Hungarian minister said "some might sell void commitments and pursue dreams," however the "actual real factors can't be changed." "Like it or not," as he would see it, "purchasing this much additional gaseous petrol in Europe without Russian sources is right now essentially unthinkable."
Szijjarto focused on that while his country's storage spaces were sufficiently full "for ordinary times," since these are not typical times Hungary needs more gas to have a real sense of safety. The minister focused on that dealings with Russia ought to finish up as quickly as time permits as the warming season formally begins on October 15.
Lavrov said that the Hungarian government's solicitation to buy extra petroleum gas would "be quickly detailed and thought of."
Simultaneously, the Russian unfamiliar minister accepted it was a disgrace that an "straightforwardly Russophobic strategy" and the "uncontrolled heightening of sanctions" by Washington and Brussels was preventing the improvement of useful participation among Moscow and Budapest. He swore "to look for and track down the arrangements" that would make collaborating autonomous "of these sorts of whims."
Szijjarto's gatherings in Moscow additionally included converses with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak, who is responsible for energy matters, and Russian Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov.
Because of the Russian military hostile in Ukraine, the EU - alongside the US, the UK, and numerous different nations - forced unforgiving sanctions on Moscow, including a portion of its energy trades. Hungary, which is around 85% ward on Russian gas supplies, has been reliably against forcing a ban on gas sends out from Russia.
Hungarian President Viktor Orban cautioned last month that such a boycott would "ruin the entire European economy." Hungary has likewise gone against the EU's staged withdrawal from Russian oil imports before the current year's over, and has been given a waiver to continue to buy the fuel from Moscow.
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