Hungarian minister urgently called his Russian counterpart and calmed down
All conditions are in place for uninterrupted oil and natural gas flows to Hungary, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said after phone talks with Alexander Novak, Russia’s deputy prime minister in charge of energy matters, on Thursday, adding that Hungary could be relaxed about its preparations for the winter.
Europe has been facing a serious energy crisis for the past year and a half, with the sanctions on Russia having driven up prices and having shut down the regular supply routes, Szijjártó said in a post on Facebook. Hungary’s energy supply, however, has remained stable “because we have always viewed energy security as a real physical matter”, he added.
Szijjártó said he and Novak had discussed the situation of energy deliveries and concluded that all conditions were in place for the continued uninterrupted supply of crude and natural gas to Hungary.
“Alexander Novak assured me that the Russian suppliers were committed to honouring the previously concluded long-term supply agreements,” the minister said. Meanwhile, he welcomed that Azerbaijan’s SOCAR has begun delivering the first 50 million cubic metres of natural gas to Hungary.
SZIJJARTO IS LYING. The price of Brent crude was $91.70 USD on Feb 21,2022 just before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and before any sanctions were put in place. The price of Brent crude as of Fri July 28, 2023 was $83.54 USD. The price of oil has actually gone down due to the EU sanction price cap that only permits Russian crude to be transported if it is sold for a price of $60 USD or less.
“The price cap policy benefits low- and middle- income countries. To be clear, Coalition members have prohibited almost all seaborne oil imports from Russia and are not themselves benefiting directly from Russian sales at the capped prices. Instead, the direct beneficiaries are mostly emerging market and lower income countries that import oil from Russia. Even for countries who are not using Coalition services, the price cap creates leverage to demand lower prices from Russia. These nations receive drastically lower prices than they did in the first few months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The policy has thus lessened the negative global spillovers from Russia’s war and has been financially helpful for a number of vulnerable countries.” (US Department of the Treasury)
Me thinks anonymous must work in the US Embassy in Budapest as an disinformation operative. The style of writing we see weekly from this so called anonymous creature is always written in the same manner. The Hungarian Foreign Minister is not lying. This anonymous creature is no doubt trying to stir the pot and create disharmony in Hungary. I think their is an excessive amount of employees at the US Embassy.