Hungary’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Economic Relations Peter Szijjarto has arrived in Moscow to discuss energy cooperation with Russia. Szijjarto said he plans to meet Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak and head of the Rosatom energy company Alexey Likhachev. This was reported by the Russian news agency TASS.

“Today in Moscow, we will discuss the most important cooperation issues to secure Hungary’s energy supply, first with Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak, who is in charge of energy, and then with Rosatom director Alexey Likhachev,” Szijjarto wrote on his Facebook page.

Come winter

According to Szijjarto, Europe has weathered warm winters, but that could still change. “However, the International Energy Agency has clearly warned that the sharp increase in energy demand following the resumption of China’s economy and the very slow development of Europe’s energy infrastructure will create real difficulties in coming winter,” said the Foreign Energy Minister. Affairs.

Szijjarto stressed that ‘the security of Hungary’s energy supply requires the uninterrupted transportation of gas, oil and nuclear fuel’. “To fulfill these three conditions, Hungary-Russia energy cooperation must be sustainable. This has nothing to do with political preferences, but only about physics,” Szijjarto wrote.

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Hungary continues to receive Russian oil via the Druzhba pipeline, and gas via TurkStream and its branches via Bulgaria and Serbia. The Paks Nuclear Power Plant, which generates half of the country’s electricity, uses Russian nuclear fuel. The plant is preparing for the construction of two new nuclear power plants designed by the Russian nuclear company Rosatom, TASS report.