outlier on many issues, from supporting ukraine with weapons and sanctions to welcoming sweden into nato. my guest is hungary s foreign minister, peter szijjarto. will hungary pay a price for its defiance? foreign minister peter szijjarto in budapest, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for the invitation again, iam happy to be here again. it is a pleasure to have you back on the programme, mr szijjarto. let me start with simple question. a terrible war has been raging in ukraine for more than a year as a result of the russian military invasion. who do you in hungary, want to see when that more? we want this war are to be finished, to be stopped as soon as possible because this war takes place in our neighbourhood and you can imagine that if there is a war in your neighbourhood the impacts of the war are being immediate and severe, unfortunately, and please do not forget that when you talk to me, you talk to a representative of a nation, members of which are dying in this
will hungary pay a price for its defiance? foreign minister peter szijjarto in budapest, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for the invitation again, i am happy to be here again. it is a pleasure to have you back on the programme, mr szijjarto. let me start with simple question. a terrible war has been raging in ukraine for more than a year as a result of the russian military invasion. who do you in hungary, want to see win that war? we want this war to be finished, to be stopped as soon as possible because this war takes place in our neighbourhood and you can imagine that if there is a war in your neighbourhood the impacts of the war are being immediate and severe, unfortunately, and please do not forget that when you talk to me, you talk to a representative of a nation, members of which are dying in this war. given the fact that there is a significant hungarian community living in the western part of ukraine, members of which are ukrainian citizens, they are mobilised t
cohesion. hungary is a consistent outlier on many issues from supporting ukraine with weapons and sanctions to welcoming sweden into nato. my guest is hungary s foreign minister peter szijjarto. will hungary pay a price for its defiance? foreign minister peter szijjarto in budapest, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for the welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for the invitation - so much for the invitation again, i am so much for the invitation again, iam happy so much for the invitation again, i am happy to and. it is again, i am happy to and. it is again, i am happy to and. it is a pleasure again, i am happy to and. it is a pleasure to again, i am happy to and. it is a pleasure to have again, i am happy to and. it is a pleasure to have you - again, i am happy to and. it is a pleasure to have you back and do szijjarto. let me start with simple questions to be a terrible war has been raging in ukraine for more than
And we have talked with you a lot about the Energy Impact of the war in ukraine on Western Europe but china also buys some russian energy, has that come up . Russia wants to sell more of its energy. Because russia is trying to pivot from the west to the east, it sees the market in the east, the Energy Market is very attractive. It wants to sell as much gas and oil as it can. The problem that russia has is it is not easy to quickly reorient its energy infrastructure. All of the pipelines that have been built over decades have basically been built going west. So it will take a lot of money and a lot of time and energy to build more pipelines going to china, for example. There is one gas pipeline that already exists to china, there is talk of building another one via mongolia. But this will take a long time. There are a lot of experts here that think despite moscow being very bullish and are saying, well, if we are suffering from all of these western sanctions, we will just sell our energ