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John Woods John Woods · 16/07/2022
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Plans ready to protect Hungarians if the Russians reach Subcarpathia

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Photo: MTI/AP/Jevhen Malolevka

Hungarian Foreign Affairs Minister,Péter Szijjártó talked about the country’s plans to protect Hungarians after a C5 (Czechia, Austria, Slovakia, Slovenia) meeting. He said that Hungary had finalised plans provided the front reached Subcarpathia, and the Russian invasion endangered Hungarian lives.

According to blikk.hu, the foreign minister emphasised the importance of peace on the eastern front. That is the option to evade dangerous scenarios drafted to enable Hungary to protect the 150,000 Hungarians living in Subcarpathia. Szijjártó said that Hungaryq mitigating the chances to be dragged into the war.

He added that there were enough sanctions and the West should concentrate on peace or at least a ceasefire. Just like any country suffering from the war in its neighbourhood, Hungary had to prepare for self-defence. Hungary has prepared for various war scenarios,

taking soldiers out of the southern border defence units are part of those plans.

He highlighted he did not consider it likely that the war in Ukraine would end soon.

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He also said that Hungary proposed Budapest to be the venue for the peace talks. On Zelenskiy and his criticism of the Hungarian government, Szijjártó commented that the Ukrainian president looked out for the Ukrainian’s best interest. That is dragging as many countries into the armed conflict as possible. If not otherwise, by arms deliveries. However, the Hungarian government represents the Hungarians’ interests. Therefore, it would like to remain out of the war.

Hungary’s government is in talks to import 700,000,000 more cubic metres of natural gas beyond the volumes specified in the country’s long-term gas purchase agreements with a view to boosting energy security, the minister of foreign affairs and trade said on Friday.

The government is negotiating the gas purchases with both western and eastern partners, Péter Szijjártó said at a press conference he held jointly with Gebran Bassil, the head of Lebanon’s Free Patriotic Movement. Szijjártó said he hoped to be able to go into more detail about the outcomes of the talks next week.

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The minister said that in 2020, market players had tried to talk him out of long-term gas purchase agreements saying that gas supplies would be secure without them. Szijjártó added that because he had always maintained that Hungary’s energy security was a strategic and national security issue, the government had decided to sign long-term gas supply deals with both Shell and Russia’s Gazprom.

“If we hadn’t made those deals, the country would be in major trouble right now because Europe’s natural gas spot market has dried up in this time of war,” Szijjártó said, adding that thanks to the long-term agreements, Hungary’s energy supply was on a secure footing.

However, Hungary must be prepared for potential energy supply disruptions in Western Europe, hence, the country must stockpile as much gas as possible, he said. That was the reason why, he added, Hungary had decided to increase its gas imports beyond the volumes specified in the long-term gas supply deals. Szijjártó said Gazprom had been a reliable supplier so far and it was clear that the southern gas delivery route was the most predictable. He noted at the same time that Hungary had built the infrastructure needed to link the country to the Turkish Stream pipeline despite “everyone trying to get Hungary to do otherwise”.

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“Had that infrastructure not been developed, we’d be in huge trouble”, the minister said. He argued that half of the 32,600,000 cubic metres of gas that flowed into Hungary on Friday had arrived via the southern delivery route. “So most of the Russian gas comes from the south, while we only get one-third of the contracted volume from the west,” he said. Hungary will therefore also negotiate to divert the gas deliveries it would get from the west to the southern route, he added.

Meanwhile, Szijjártó said the war and the related sanctions on Russia had created an inflationary environment in Europe.

But the war also affects other parts of the world and the migration crisis will likely be more severe than ever before, Szijjártó warned. He argued that falling food and grain exports would lead to serious supply disruptions in parts of the world that were already unstable. He said the “disastrous consequences” threatening Europe could only be prevented by achieving peace as soon as possible, urging “those with power on the international stage” should do all they can in the interest of peace.

Szijjártó noted that there are some 1,500,000 Syrian refugees in Lebanon, and Lebanon had sourced 80 percent of its wheat supply and 90 percent of its cooking oil supply from Ukraine and Russia. This, he said, made Lebanon a “powder keg” that could set off a major migration wave towards Europe if peace was not achieved.

Meanwhile, he said that besides energy security, the key to Hungary’s physical security was keeping out “the

armed migrant gangs that have besieged our southern borders”.

In such a situation, the international political world, too, should be focusing on preventing the emergence of migration waves and helping countries that look after a lot of migrants, Szijjártó said. Hungary is one of those countries, he said, noting that it has given the Lebanese Christian communities millions of dollars in the recent period for the construction of churches and offered university degrees to 50 students each year.

Bassil said Hungary had always stood by Lebanon when it faced difficult times. He said the Hungary Helps humanitarian scheme was proof of the aid Hungary had provided, adding that his party aimed to boost ties with Hungary’s ruling Fidesz. Concerning migration, he said Syrian migrants could start gradually returning to their home country, which should be encouraged.

Source: MTI, blikk.hu

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2 Comments

  1. Nondescript : says:
    16/07/2022 at 11:54

    Lovely to meet you – Comrades ///

  2. a horvath says:
    17/07/2022 at 02:47

    The very first thing Hungary needs to do is to enlarge its armed forces. A military of only 30,000 with 12 modern tanks and 12 modern fixed wing combat planes is inadequate to defend the country and Hungarians threatened by war.

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