On December 17, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will sign the contract in Bucharest on the electricity network supplying electricity from Azerbaijan through Georgia and Romania to Hungary, Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister's press chief, confirmed the Romanian press reports to MTI.
According to reports, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will also attend the event.
In August, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced, after his meeting with the Minister of Energy of Azerbaijan, that Azerbaijan will produce a large amount of green electricity, which will be delivered to Georgia and from there to Romania via an undersea pipeline.
We agreed, Péter Szijjártó wrote at the time, that Hungary would join this large-scale plan, since the participation of at least two member countries is necessary for the project to receive EU support.
In this way, green electricity can be transported to our country, which can be partly used by us, and partly served as a transit route - said the foreign minister on his social media page.
Source: Mandiner/MTI
Picture: Róbert Hegedűs
