Hungary accused Ukraine of meddling in its internal affairs on Monday after Kyiv criticized it over the signing of a new 15-year natural gas supply deal with Russia’s Gazprom . Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in a statement that this amounted to a “violation of Hungary’s sovereignty.”BUDAPEST — Hungary’s foreign minister summoned Ukraine’s ambassador on Tuesday over what he said were Ukraine’s attempts to block Hungary’s new long-term gas supply deal with Russia, which was signed on Monday. Article content“We regard it a violation of our sovereignty that Ukraine wants to block a secure gas supply for Hungary,” Szijjarto said in a statement. Ukraine, which stands to lose money on transit payments, issued a statement on Monday saying Hungary’s supply deal was a “purely political, economically unreasonable decision” and was to the detriment of Ukrainian-Hungarian relations. Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s nationalist government responded by blocking Ukraine’s efforts to build closer ties with NATO and the European Union, of which Hungary is a member.

Source: National Post September 28, 2021 07:52 UTC