Hungary hopes for even more gas from Gazprom next month, while peace is voiced
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The international community should favour measures that help bring about peace in Ukraine instead of those that risk escalating the conflict, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on the sidelines of the Bled Strategic Forum in Slovenia on Monday.
According to Aljazeera, Hungary expects to reach a deal with Gazprom to increase supplies further from next month, Szijjártó has said. Russians started to increase gas supplies to Hungary this month, adding to previously agreed deliveries via the TurkStream pipeline.
Hungary does not support Ukraine’s defence, Hungarian government wants end of the war
The armed conflict has a severely negative impact on the entirety of Europe in areas like the economy and energy supply, the foreign ministry cited Szijjártó as saying after the opening of the forum.
“Since we are physically and geographically close to the war and in its neighbourhood, its impact on us is more severe than its average impact on Europe,” Szijjártó said. “Achieving peace as soon as possible is therefore in our fundamental interest here in Hungary and central Europe.”
“We urge the international community to prioritise measures and decisions that help bring about peace, and we want aspirations that risk the escalation, continuation or — God forbid — spread of the war beyond Ukraine to take a back seat,” he said.
