Brussels, 21 Mar The Hungarian Government today assured that it will not support sanctioning Russian energy exports if it jeopardizes the energy security of the Central European country and announced that it does not believe that there will be unanimous support within the European Union for a proposal to that effect. “We do not support sanctions that endanger Hungary’s energy security,” Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó, who is taking part in a summit with his colleagues from the European Union today in Brussels, told local media. Szijjártó said that this issue is “it’s a red line” for Hungary, one of the European countries with the greatest dependence on Russian gas, which accounts for 95% of the total it consumes. Several EU countries today supported sanctioning Russian oil exports as a new measure of pressure and punishment on Russia for the invasion of Ukraine, although without mentioning gas since many countries, including Germany, are heavily dependent on imports of this energy source. Szijjártó said that a possible proposal to apply oil sanctions “will surely not have unanimous support” in the EU. “I have asked that we do not cause more harm to ourselves than we want to do to the sanctioned country,” the minister added. Upon entering the meeting, the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, told the press that ministers will consider what kind of new sanctions they can promote, “especially related to energy”. CHIEF min-as/psh
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