匈牙利准备与俄气就新的天然气供应协议进行谈判

据路透社12月2日布达佩斯报道，匈牙利外交部周一表示，匈牙利已准备好与俄罗斯天然气工业股份公司就一项新的长期天然气供应协议进行谈判。

周一早些时候，俄罗斯外长Peter Szijjarto在布达佩斯会见了俄罗斯天然气工业股份公司董事长。匈牙利根据一项供应协议从俄罗斯进口其大部分天然气，该协议将于2020年到期。

自右翼保守党首相Viktor Orban自2010年上台以来，一直奉行与俄罗斯良建立好的务实关系。

匈牙利的天然气年消费量约为100亿立方米，今年冬天已经储满了天然气。

这个中欧国家通过一条通过乌克兰的管道来获取大部分天然气。

俄罗斯向乌克兰和欧洲输送天然气的现有协议将于12月31日到期。新的协议尚未签署，谈判因仲裁程序和俄罗斯吞并克里米亚等问题而变得复杂。

10月，Szijjarto对路透表示，TurkStream管道应尽快在保加利亚兴建，因为这将开辟通往匈牙利的另一条天然气输送路线。

李方征 编译自 路透社

原文如下：

Hungary says ready to talk to Gazprom about new gas supply deal

Hungary is ready to start talks with Russia’s Gazprom about a new long-term gas supply deal, Hungary’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday.

Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto met the chairman of Gazprom in Budapest earlier on Monday. Hungary imports most of its gas from Russia under a supply agreement due to expire by 2020.

Right-wing conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orban has pursued what he has hailed as good pragmatic relations with Russia ever since he came to power in 2010.

Hungary, which has annual gas consumption of around 10 billion cubic meters, already has its gas storage full for this winter.

The central European country gets most of its gas via a pipeline that runs though Ukraine.

An existing deal on Russian gas supplies to Ukraine and those transiting to Europe expires after Dec. 31. A new agreement has not yet been signed and talks are complicated by issues such as arbitration proceedings and Russia’s annexation of Crimea.

Szijjarto told Reuters in October that the TurkStream pipeline should be constructed as soon as possible in Bulgaria because that would open up an additional gas delivery route to Hungary.