BUDAPEST, February 24. /TASS/. The acquisition of a controlling stake in Naftna Industrija Srbije (NIS) by the Hungarian company MOL from Russia’s Gazprom will help Budapest, Serbia and Slovakia to resist energy blackmail from Ukraine, said Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto after a meeting with Serbia’s Minister of Mining and Energy Dubravka Djedovic Handanovic.
"As soon as MOL completes the acquisition of the Serbian oil company, the oil markets of the three landlocked countries - Slovakia, Hungary and Serbia - will function in a coordinated manner, and we will become even more resistant to political blackmail from Ukraine. Of course, we will provide MOL with all the necessary support for this," Szijjarto said on Facebook (banned in Russia, owned by Meta Corporation recognized as extremist in Russia).
He also said that he had agreed with Djedovic Handanovic "to further accelerate preparatory work for the construction of an oil pipeline between Hungary and Serbia. The new transport route will significantly increase the security of oil supplies to our countries."
It is assumed that this route will be used to transit Russian oil to Serbia through Hungary via the Druzhba pipeline.
