Romania supplies gas to Hungary

Romania will not only been seen as a transit route for natural gas but also as a country of origin, and Hungary wants a decision on the extraction of the Black Sea fields to be made as soon as possible, Péter Szijjártó, the foreign minister, said in Bucharest on Tuesday.

Szijjártó said current good cooperation between Hungary and Romania would ensure Hungary’s gas supplies, noting that Romania will transit gas from Azerbaijan. The Hungary-Romania interconnector now has a capacity of 2.5 billion cubic metres, and Hungary is planning to import two billion cubic metres per annum, he added.

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The Romanian government has passed a decision to link its gas resources at the Black Sea with the country’s distribution centre “from which there is already a pipeline to Hungary”, he said. “It is in our interest that Romania should pass an decision allowing Black Sea gas to reach Hungary as soon as possible,” he said.

On another subject, Szijjártó said the ethnic Hungarian RMDSZ party’s being part of the Romanian government had contributed to the development of Hungarian-Romanian cooperation “in a number of areas”. He welcomed that Romanian leaders appreciated that party and its politicians.

Romania’s Hungarian community is “an asset, a bridge continuously helping us in efforts to improve cooperation between Hungary and Romania,” Szijjártó said. He mentioned sports, environment protection, and European Union developments as areas in which ethnic Hungarian ministers had played key roles.

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Continuous improvement of bilateral cooperation is in Hungary’s key strategic interest, the minister said, noting close business ties and those of energy security.

The turnover of bilateral trade with Romania reached record of 12 billion euros last year, while Romania has now become Hungary’s third largest export market, Szijjártó said, noting the importance of continued development of transport routes.

Source: MTI