BUDAPEST, April 13. /TASS/. Hungary’s new government will be ready for pragmatic cooperation with Russia, Peter Magyar, the leader of the Tisza party that won the April 12 parliamentary elections, said.
TASS has summed up his key statements.
Magyar said that the new Hungarian government will be ready for pragmatic cooperation with Russia: "I also saw that Moscow and the Kremlin, as well as Beijing, have made statements about this. I thank them for agreeing to respect the choice of Hungarian voters and the Hungarian people and for their willingness to engage in pragmatic cooperation, which Hungary is also ready for, because geography is geography."
He also said he hopes that relations between Hungary and Russia "will change in the right direction in the near future."
Magyar said that the termination of Russian oil deliveries via the Druzhba pipeline threatens Hungary’s energy supplies: "We will always be trying to buy oil at a maximally low price and with maximal reliability. But, look at the Druzhba oil pipeline. What has happened threatens Hungary’s energy supplies."
