Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said Hungary and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) are in strategic agreement that oil supplies are not a political matter and the issue of crude deliveries should not be "politicised".
After meeting with OPEC Secretary General Haitham al-Ghais in Vienna on Monday, Minister Szijjártó said in a post on Facebook that Hungary, as an importer of crude, was affected just as much by the decisions of transit countries as it was by those of oil-producing countries.
He added that the sides were in full agreement that no country had the right to undermine another country's energy security by monopolising a transit pipeline or using it for political purposes, endangering crude supply.
Minister Szijjártó said he had informed the OPEC secretary general that two of Hungary's neighbors had recently put the country in a difficult position with regard to crude supply with their "politically-based decisions".
Haitham al-Ghais expressed full solidarity with Hungary and the sides agreed to cooperate in future on sending the message that energy "is not a political matter but a physical one", he added.