Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said the Bulgarian and Serbian ministers in charge of energy affairs have confirmed that Russian gas supplies through Turkey, Bulgaria and Serbia to Hungary were undisturbed and in line with the contract.
Speaking in New York on Wednesday, Péter Szijjártó said the Serbian minister had assured him that the contracted volume of gas arrived in Serbia and would partly be forwarded to Hungary. Minister Szijjártó said that Bulgarian energy minister Alexander Nikolov had confirmed to him that the contracts on transits would continue to be observed. Checking the situation personally on Wednesday afternoon CET, Minister Szijjártó found that everything was on schedule with the supply of daily 10 million cubic metres of gas to Hungary.
Minister Szijjártó reiterated that a significant part of gas supplies arrived in Hungary on the southern route and so it was a major development that Gazprom had recently stopped supplies to Poland and Bulgaria. However, the operator of the Bulgarian network Bulgartransgaz has confirmed that transit supplies would continue to operate regardless of the move, he said. Gazprom has also confirmed that gas to Serbia and Hungary would continue to be supplied over the pipeline, he added.
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