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DNH 2021 DNH 2021 · 04/02/2022
· Politics

Here is what Orbán and Putin talked about behind closed doors!

energy European Union Hungary Paks nuclear plant project Russia Viktor Orbán

PM Viktor Orbán said in his today morning interview to Kossuth Rádió that during the five-hour talks with Putin, he made nine proposals and achieved to reach agreement on eight of them. “We have put a lot of work intohaving good relations with Russia,” he said. “We had bad relations with the Soviet Union,” he said, adding “that era has ended and we are making efforts now to have a different system of relations with the new Russia.” Hungary wants peace and to reduce tensions, which requires talks, he said. “We will hold many long negotiations with Russia, and Hungary has made the first step,” he added

The prime minister said Hungary had prestige and independent policies. “Hungarian interests have a presence in the world,” he added. “This is especially true of the economy,” he said, adding that Hungary was attracting big investments, money and factories.

Orbán said Hungary was on the way to being the first country in Europe to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels to no more than 10 percent of the energy mix by 2030.

“Hungary is already a climate champion”

and a leader in reducing emissions, the prime minister said.

He noted the role of the expansion of the Paks nuclear plant and the country’s solar power plants in the process of creating energy independence. Until this is achieved, Russian gas is key to maintaining Hungary’s energy system, the prime minister said. The minister of foreign affairs and trade has secured 4.5 billion cubic meters of gas per year for fifteen years and the possibility of increasing this by another 1 billion. An agreement is almost in hand, he said, adding that negotiations were under way.

  • Read also: PM Orbán: Hungary may be ‘ice breaker’ between Russia, West

Orbán said people in western Europe were suffering because their governments had not concluded a long-term contract with Russia and they were “running out of reserves”. Hungary, by contrast, has guaranteed supplies of Russian gas and this would make the continuation of cheap household bills possible.

Meanwhile, the prime minister said Sputnik and Sputnik light would be in great demand around the world, and Hungary would be able to co-produce the Russian vaccine. He added that Hungarians would continue to be able to choose from a wide variety of vaccines.

Noting EU efforts to ensure European production capacities are up to scratch during a crisis such as the current one, he said Hungary has applied to be a part of the European production network and had accordingly proposed the Debrecen plant under construction.

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Read alsoPutin: Hungary ‘reliable partner’ in Russian gas transit deliveries

Source: MTI

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