Hungarian president: We need good friends and partners so that we can diversify our energy resources

“It is an honor for us to have you on an official visit in Hungary. I know that you already had a very good program yesterday. I hope for a good continuation, which will be with Prime Minister, who is the Executive,” President of Hungary Katalin Novák said at an expanded meeting with President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev in Budapest on January 30, Report informs referring to AzerTag.

Stressing that cooperation in the energy sector is one of the most important issues between the two countries, the president of Hungary noted: “Well, we are not in such a lucky situation that you are, unfortunately. We were deprived from our natural energy resources more than 100 years ago. So, we don't have it anymore. And we need good friends and partners so that we can now diversify our energy resources, because you know that for the present, we are dependent from the Russian oil and gas. And that was also one of our major issues that we discussed - the actual situation of the war and our expectations.”