According to the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russia has started extra gas supplies to the EU member state. After negotiations between Moscow and Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto last month, Russian company Gazprom began supplying more gas on Friday than “was already contractually agreed,” Minister Tamas Menczer said on Facebook on Saturday.
According to him, an additional 2.6 million cubic meters per day will come to Hungary via the TurkStream pipeline by the end of August. Menczer explains that further deliveries in September are still being negotiated. He stressed that it is “the duty of the Hungarian government to ensure the country’s safe natural gas supply”.
“Impossible without Russian sources”
Foreign Minister Szijjarto paid an unannounced visit to Moscow in July to discuss the purchase of an additional 700 million cubic meters of gas. Purchasing such large volumes of gas is “impossible” given 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 caused by Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine. The regulation provides for a voluntary winter gas savings of 15 percent per country, but allows numerous exceptions for states. Hungary is one of the countries that requested an exception. The country is mainly dependent on Russian energy imports.
Source: Krone
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