FM: EC’s sixth gas sanctions package against Russia is unacceptable
Péter Szijjártó said Hungary has proposed exempting oil pipeline deliveries in the case of an EU oil embargo.
Péter Szijjártó said Hungary has proposed exempting oil pipeline deliveries in the case of an EU oil embargo.
If the EC intends to impose an embargo on Russian oil, it must financially and physically guarantee that the decision will not hurt the Hungarian people or Hungary’s energy security.
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The foreign minister said the European Commission had not made a proposal that would ameliorate the damaging effects of an embargo on Russian oil.
Péter Szijjártó called for efforts to prevent the EU from having to face multiple security challenges should it fail to handle problems in the Middle East or North Africa.
Péter Szijjártó said in Brussels that the European Commission’s latest sanctions package jeopardized the unified EU stance on ending European dependence on Russian energy.
The foreign minister said the coming decade is expected to bring further crises, as did the past 12 years, and the government is ready to protect Hungary’s interests and economic achievements as it has done before.
Hungary wants peace in Ukraine as soon as possible and will support all diplomatic efforts to end the war.
Minister Szijjártó said the effect of the EU’s planned sanctions package against Russian fossil fuels on Hungary’s energy security and the economy would be akin to a “nuclear bomb”.
Hungary opposes the war in Ukraine and wants peace to be restored in the region as soon as possible.
The Hungarian atomic energy authority is in the process of reviewing permit applications, and once those permits are issued, “construction may enter its next phase,” Minister Szijjártó said.
Péter Szijjártó said the latest sanctions package would “involve a ban on crude oil shipments from Russia to Europe with rather short notice, which in Hungary’s case would apply from the end of next year”.