FM Szijjártó believes that the Biden administration hinders the Paks NPP expansion

The foreign minister said that “it is a political revenge by the failed US Democratic administration” that the expansion of Hungary’s nuclear power plant at Paks had not been exempted from sanctions against Russia’s Gazprombank, but there is no reason for concern.

The foreign ministry cited Péter Szijjártó as saying in New York that the outgoing US administration’s recent one-sided steps made energy supplies for the entire region more difficult, and the sanctions against Gazprombank resulted in a difficult situation to those countries that “do not represent mainstream politics, but represent conservative, patriotic, national policies, and their policies much rather coincide with the incoming US president’s”.

“The US government obviously knew precisely well what effects these measures would have, and they knew precisely well which countries they cause problems to,” he added.

“But everyone can rest assured, because we are eliminating these risks. We have partly already taken the necessary legal, technical and technological steps, and will take more in the upcoming period. Hungary’s energy supplies are secure and will be secure as long as we are in government,” he said.

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