Natural gas plays a crucial role in Hungary’s energy supply, but one of the ways to reduce dependence on this resource is to increase electricity imports, Hungarian Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Peter Sijarto said on Friday in Slovenia, the Hungarian Agency reports. This is reported by MTI, citing Agerpres.

One of the buzzwords in the European debate is “diversification”, which the Hungarian government – unlike other European governments – does not mean giving up certain energy sources, but getting energy from as many different sources as possible. and to transport as many routes as possible, explained the Hungarian minister.

To this end, he continued, his country has launched two important projects aimed at guaranteeing its long-term energy supply. The first, which is now successfully completed, concerns the connection of the electricity networks of Hungary and Slovenia, and the second considers receiving green energy from Azerbaijan through Georgia and Romania, the agreement on this project will be signed in Bucharest in two weeks, Sijarto recalled.

“This will not only strengthen our security of energy supply, but also allow us to consider the issue of environmental protection,” he added.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said last week after a meeting in Belgrade with his Azerbaijani counterpart, Ilham Aliyev, that Serbia wants to import natural gas and electricity from Azerbaijan and join a major European project to transport electricity through an undersea cable in the Black Sea connecting Azerbaijan and Georgia. with Romania and Hungary.

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