(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 31. Türkiye will
fully support the supply of Azerbaijani gas to Hungary and other
Southeastern European countries, Turkish Minister of Foreign
Affairs Mevlut Cavusoglu said during a press conference with
Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó,
trend reports.
Cavusoglu noted that cooperation in the energy sector will be
further strengthened.
As part of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's official visit
to Hungary, Minister of Economy of Azerbaijan Mikayil Jabbarov and
Hungarian official Péter Szijjártó signed a“Memorandum of
Understanding on natural gas cooperation between the Ministry of
Economy of the Republic of Azerbaijan and Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and Trade of Hungary”.
At a joint press conference with Jabbarov in Budapest on January
24, Szijjártó welcomed Azerbaijan's ambition to double its pipeline
capacity to Europe by 2027, and said it was an important task to
create the necessary contractual environment to bring gas from the
Southern Gas Corridor to the central part of the continent. The
minister also expressed hope that Azerbaijani gas would contribute
to the domestic security of supply as soon as possible, for which
inter-company negotiations have already started.
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