Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced on social media on Tuesday morning the signing of a long-term natural gas purchase agreement “to the West”.
Mr. Szijjártó wrote: there is no doubt that natural gas will be an important source of Hungary’s energy supply in the long term, and the more routes and the more gas we can procure, the more secure we are. In light of this, as he wrote, a new long-term natural gas purchase contract will be signed on Tuesday.
the Minister said, but he did not yet reveal what exactly the procurement to the West means, nor how long-term the contract will be.
Mr. Szijjártó added that Hungary has always made serious efforts in the direction of diversification, although it has previously argued against this. The Minister last spoke about the fact that Hungary openly buys Russian oil because it has no other option, while other European countries secretly buy Russian oil in a roundabout way because it is cheaper. Regarding Russian gas transit, for example, he said in June