Orban reveals what he informed Trump about Russian oil — RT World Information
Reducing power ties with Moscow would put Hungary’s financial system “on its knees,” the prime minister has stated
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban informed US President Donald Trump in a latest telephone name that his nation’s financial system would collapse nearly immediately if it reduce off Russian oil and fuel.
Budapest continues to withstand mounting strain from Brussels and Washington to finish its reliance on Russian power, citing geographic and infrastructural constraints in addition to nationwide safety pursuits.
“If Hungary is reduce off from Russian oil and pure fuel, instantly, inside a minute, Hungarian financial efficiency will drop by 4%,” Orban stated in his common interview on Friday. “It means the Hungarian financial system can be on its knees.”
Requested whether or not Trump accepted his arguments throughout their telephone name on Thursday, Orban replied: “America has its arguments and pursuits, Hungary has its personal. Our activity is to precise and symbolize them clearly. If we’re mates, we pay attention to one another – after which everybody does what they assume is true.”
Trump appeared to acknowledge Orban’s issues, describing him as a “nice man” and a “nice buddy of mine.”
“Hungary, you understand, they’re landlocked. And so they don’t have a pleasant ocean the place ships can sail in from everywhere in the world. You already know, they’ve one pipeline,” Trump informed reporters on the White Home on Thursday. He referred to the Druzhba (Friendship) oil pipeline, which has not too long ago come beneath a number of Ukrainian assaults, disrupting provides to Hungary and Slovakia.
“And Slovakia, too. They’re type of married to 1 pipeline. So I simply don’t wish to have individuals go blaming them,” Trump added.
Hungary’s Overseas Minister Peter Szijjarto reaffirmed that Budapest wouldn’t abandon its “nationwide pursuits” beneath exterior strain, following a gathering with Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov simply hours after the Orban-Trump name.
Szijjarto additionally blasted Brussels for failing to defend member states’ power safety within the wake of the Druzhba assaults. “As an alternative of defending our power safety, they gave us lectures. And you understand it is a scandal, I believe,” he stated.
