Hungary’s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto traveled to Russia on Monday for the second time in the last six weeks, an example of the closeness that Viktor Orbán’s government continues to maintain with Moscow, which has positioned itself against new rounds of sanctions.
Szijjarto has attended a nuclear technology forum in Sochi, on the shores of the Black Sea, with a view to making further progress in the construction of two new reactors at the Paks atomic power plant. The Russian giant Rosatom will be in charge of expanding these facilities.
«I sincerely hope that no European country will prevent this investment,» said Szijjarto, who insisted that energy «is a matter of national security, even sovereignty,» according to statements released by his department.
The head of Hungarian diplomacy traveled to Moscow in October to also attend an event on energy policy and was the only EU foreign minister to meet in September with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
