Hungary’s supply cannot be carried out without Russian energy resources, the country’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Economic Relations, Péter Szijjártó, said in an interview with La Repubblica on January 21.
“When you are in a landlocked area, if you don’t get Russian energy resources, you can’t supply your country,” Szijjártó said.
In this regard, he noted that Hungary needs to maintain relations with Moscow.
On January 18, Szijjártó announced that Hungary could only receive gas and oil from Russia. According to him, this situation has developed due to the fact that Hungary’s infrastructure does not allow supplying the republic from other sources.
On January 16, Szijjarto said that the Hungarian authorities hope that the European Union will provide financial support for the construction of gas infrastructure for supplies to Central Europe from new sources.
At the end of December 2022, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that the rise in energy prices amid the conflict in Ukraine and anti-Russian sanctions cost the country €10 billion.
Orban also said that the conflict in Ukraine will continue as long as the Kyiv regime receives financial and military assistance from the United States. At the same time, according to him, Budapest, in a crisis, follows its own interests exclusively. He clarified that they do not include the severance of economic relations with Moscow, despite calls from Brussels.
On December 20 last year, Advisor to the Prime Minister of the country Balash Orban called on the European Commission to carefully analyze the consequences of anti-Russian sanctions for Europe. He said that Budapest will seek for itself derogations from anti-Russian sanctions in the energy sector and other areas where “sanctions harm Europe more than Russia.”
Western countries have stepped up sanctions pressure on Moscow against the backdrop of a special operation to protect Donbass, the beginning of which the President of the Russian Federation announced on February 24. However, this has already turned into economic problems in Europe, causing a sharp increase in fuel and food prices.
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