Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Peter Szijjarto arrived in Moscow to discuss energy cooperation with Russia. Szijjarto said he intends to meet with Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak and Rosatom energy company head Alexey Likhachev. The Russian news agency Tass reports it.
“Today in Moscow we will discuss the most important issues of cooperation to secure Hungary’s energy supply, first with Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak, who is responsible for energy, and then with Rosatom Director Alexey Likhachev,” Szijjarto wrote in the his Facebook page.
Winter is coming
According to Szijjarto, Europe has successfully survived the warm winter, but things can still change. “However, the International Energy Agency has clearly warned that the sharp increase in energy demand following the restart of the Chinese economy and the extremely slow development of Europe’s energy infrastructure will create real difficulties in the coming winter,” said the energy minister. Business.
Szijjarto stressed that “the security of Hungary’s energy supply requires uninterrupted transportation of gas, oil and nuclear fuel”. “To meet these three conditions, Russian-Hungarian energy cooperation must be continuous. This has nothing to do with political preferences, it is simply about physics,” Szijjarto wrote.
Hungary continues to receive Russian oil through the Druzhba pipeline and gas through TurkStream and its branches through Bulgaria and Serbia. The Paks Nuclear Power Plant, which generates half of the country’s electricity, uses Russian nuclear fuel. The plant is preparing for the construction of two new nuclear power plants designed by the Russian nuclear company Rosatom, TASS reports.
Source: BNR
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