FM: Bulgaria offers to help Hungary
Minister Szijjártó said he had reviewed the situation that had arisen due to Ukraine’s “unacceptable” move to render Lukoil’s crude oil transits to Hungary and Slovakia impossible.
Minister Szijjártó said he had reviewed the situation that had arisen due to Ukraine’s “unacceptable” move to render Lukoil’s crude oil transits to Hungary and Slovakia impossible.
The foreign minister said Europe’s politicians are “jealous” of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
Minister Szijjártó said that if the former president was re-elected, then there would be “a huge chance of bringing peace to the world, including Europe.
Hungary and Slovakia are simultaneously working on various legal and technical solutions to ensure that in case consultations failed, the court dispute settlement proceedings could start.
Ukraine’s decision to stop Russian oil company Lukoil’s crude oil transits had severely endangered energy supplies for Hungary and Slovakia.
The foreign minister said the EU’s Ukraine strategy had failed in the past two and a half years, arguing that peace was increasingly farther away.
“We have told Ukraine’s authorities that it has been an incomprehensible, unacceptable and unfriendly decision," said the foreign minister.
The foreign minister said supplies to Hungary have been stabilized by way of temporary solutions.
The foreign minister said the Hungarian government will continue to promote Georgia’s EU integration “with all its might” and will do everything to forward the process during Hungary’s current EU presidency.
Minister Szijjártó said Hungary wanted peace because it had been living in the shadow of the war for two and a half years now.
The number of workers at the Paks plant is currently at 900 and growing, and the manufacturing of equipment with long production times under way.
Minister Szijjártó said the West’s strategy had “failed" and the situation on the battlefield had not gone the way the Europeans and the Americans had hoped.
The foreign minister said Hungary had been living in the shadow of war for two and a half years and had been confronted with the direct consequences of the war.