Hungary Signs Gas Supply Deal with Azerbaijan

Hungary has secured an agreement to receive natural gas from Azerbaijan for the next two years, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said, as the central EU member state disputes the bloc’s pledge to phase out Russian gas imports.   “We have secured another gas purchase agreement, this time with Azerbaijan: 800 million cubic metres over two years,” Szijjarto posted on X.  Earlier this week, Rovshan Najaf, the president of Azerbaijan’s state oil and gas firm SOCAR, met with the chief executive of Hungary’s…