As Interfax reports, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has expressed his country’s interest in creating infrastructure to supply gas from Turkmenistan. “Turkmen natural gas could play a significant role in it, but Europe lacks adequate transport routes. We are interested in creating infrastructure in such a way that Turkmen gas could be integrated into Europe and Hungary’s energy balance,” the minister said on a social network.
Hungarian Secretary of State for International Communications and Relations Zoltan Kovacs, for his part, wrote on Twitter that Szijjarto also spoke about the need to attract new energy sources in order to overcome Europe’s energy crisis caused by the events in Ukraine and subsequent sanctions.
Szijjarto visited Turkmenistan on June 8-9, also meeting with Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov, to discuss energy, transport, pharmaceuticals, the textile industry, investments, agriculture, and water management have been named as promising areas of bilateral cooperation.
