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Romania will not only been seen as a transit route for natural gas but also as a country of origin, and Hungary wants a decision on the extraction of the Black Sea fields to be made as soon as possible, Péter Szijjártó, the foreign minister, said in Bucharest on Tuesday.
Szijjártó said current good cooperation between Hungary and Romania would ensure Hungary’s gas supplies, noting that Romania will transit gas from Azerbaijan. The Hungary-Romania interconnector now has a capacity of 2.5 billion cubic metres, and Hungary is planning to import two billion cubic metres per annum, he added.
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The Romanian government has passed a decision to link its gas resources at the Black Sea with the country’s distribution centre “from which there is already a pipeline to Hungary”, he said. “It is in our interest that Romania should pass an decision allowing Black Sea gas to reach Hungary as soon as possible,” he said.