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SZIJJÁRTÓ: EU FOREIGN MINISTERS TO DISCUSS UKRAINE’S MOVE TO HALT LUKOIL OIL TRANSIT

 

The Hungarian government is in contact with its Slovak counterpart on Ukraine’s stoppage of Russian crude oil transit shipments to the two countries, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said, adding that the matter would be raised at a meeting of EU foreign ministers on Monday. „We have told Ukraine’s authorities that it has been an incomprehensible, unacceptable and unfriendly decision … they showed some readiness to remedy the situation but those endeavours were somehow interrupted half way,” he said. „It is strange that a country aspiring to be integrated with the EU is seriously jeopardising the energy supplies of two member states,” he said. „We are working to come up with a solution though we have not caused the problem; Ukraine should resolve it and I sincerely hope that they will soon do so,” Szijjártó said.