After negotiations between Moscow and the Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto, the Russian company Gazprom has started to deliver more gas than “already contractually agreed”.
According to the Hungarian Foreign Ministry, Russia has started with additional gas supplies to the EU-Member country started. After negotiations between Moscow and the Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto last month, the Russian concern Gazprom started on Friday to deliver more gas than “already contractually agreed”, said ministry representative Tamas Menczer on Facebook on Saturday.
According to him, by the end of August, an additional 2.6 million cubic meters per day will come to Hungary through the TurkStream pipeline. Menczer explained that further deliveries in September are still being negotiated. He emphasized that it is “the duty of the Hungarian government to ensure the country’s secure supply of natural gas”.
Such amounts of gas without Russia “impossible”
Foreign Minister Szijjarto made an unannounced visit to Moscow in July to discuss the purchase of an additional 700 million cubic meters of gas. The acquisition of such large quantities of gas is “impossible” given the current “European market conditions” without Russian sources, Menczer said on Saturday.
A gas emergency plan has been in force within the EU since Tuesday to deal with the energy crisis triggered by the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine. The regulation provides for voluntary natural gas savings in the winter of 15 percent per country, but it allows numerous exceptions for states. Hungary is one of the countries that had requested an exception. The country is particularly dependent on Russian energy imports.
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