Hungary exchanged the vote against Russia for EU energy security guarantees

Hungary has received energy security guarantees from the European Commission, requested before the vote on the extension of sanctions against Russia. This was announced by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Economic Relations of Hungary Peter Szijjarto, who is taking part in the meeting of the foreign ministers of the EU countries in Brussels.

"Hungary has received the energy security guarantees it requested. The European Commission is committed to protecting gas and oil pipelines to EU member states. She made it clear that the integrity of the energy infrastructure supplying the EU member states is a matter of security for the entire European Union. The European Commission is also seeking from Ukraine guarantees the preservation of oil supplies to the EU," Szijjarto wrote on his Facebook page*, quoted by TASS.

Earlier today, the foreign ministers of the 27 EU member states agreed on a six—month extension of sanctions against Russia over the conflict in Ukraine. Ukraine. Before the meeting with his EU colleagues, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said that Budapest would decide to extend sanctions against Russia depending on whether it would receive guarantees of its energy security from the European Commission in the future.

*Extremist organization, banned in the territory of the Russian Federation