Mon Jun 26, 2023 – 4:43 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has expressed astonishment that there has been no investigation on the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines.
In an interview published on June 24 with the Chinese government-backed CGTN, he asks “The question is how on earth it is possible that someone blows up critical infrastructure on the territory of Europe…and no one has a say. No one carries out an investigation.”
He then speaks of Hungarian efforts to safeguard their energy supply: “Together with Russia, Turkey, Bulgaria and Serbia we have built a pipeline called Turkstream.”
Szijjarto explains that the pipeline delivers gas from Russia to Hungary through the Black Sea, avoiding the transit through Ukraine. Yet Hungary paid a price for hedging its national security bets.
“When we built that a couple of years ago we were threatened heavily by our ‘friends and allies’ – even by sanctions,” he said.
Why would the EU and NATO allies of Hungary take such a stance? The reason is simple. It was unacceptable to “build such a pipeline which doesn’t go through Ukraine.”
“For us, it’s obvious that our own energy security
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