Hungary ready to resume reverse gas supplies to Ukraine on January 1

Thursday, October 9, 2014 - 14:11 (EEST) Section: Latest news

Hungary is ready to resume reverse gas supplies to Ukraine from January 1, 2015.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said this in Milan on Wednesday before the opening of a summit on employment, according to the official website of the Hungarian government.
“Following the present phase of test operation, the Hungarian-Slovak interconnection gas pipeline will be fully operational as of January 1, 2015 which will guarantee Hungary’s energy supply. We shall also be able to transport non-Russian gas to Ukraine should our Ukrainian friends so desire,” reads the statement.
Orban said that Hungary would follow a common European energy policy. One of the main tasks, he said, is “ensuring [Hungary’s] own energy security and stocking its own storage facilities.”