Hungary, Russia's Gazprom in talks extra gas for Budapest in 2025
Adds context, comments on sanctions, oil imports from the third paragraph
Oct 15 (Reuters) -Hungary and Russia's Gazprom GAZP.MM are negotiating a deal for additional gas supplies next year to Budapest, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told Russia's RIA news agency in remarks published on Tuesday.
"We have already signed one (additional agreement) for the last quarter of this year, which covers additional volumes at a competitive price. We are currently negotiating a deal for next year," Szijjarto told RIA.
The Russian energy giant said last week, without providing detail, that it signed a memorandum with Hungary on a possible increase in sales of Russian gas.
Szijjarto told RIA that the memorandum includes a provision on additional agreements to long-term contracts for future years, which guarantee price competitiveness.
Hungary and Gapzrom also signed a deal last week that allows them to fully utilise the TurkStream gas pipeline.
That deal, Szijjarto told RIA, enables Budapest increase the volumes purchased under "all commercial contracts".
Russia currently exports its natural gas to Europe via two routes: a Soviet-built pipeline which crosses Ukraine, and the TurkStream pipeline to Turkey which runs along the bed of the Black Sea. Russia's gas transit deal with Ukraine is due to expire at the end of the year.
Separately, Szijjarto told RIA that Budapest will veto European Union sanctions on Russia if the exemption for Hungary to purchase Russian oil is cancelled.
"Sanctions are usually reviewed every six months. And while sanctions are in place, these exceptions must remain in force, because otherwise we will veto the sanctions," Szijjarto said.
Hungarian energy group MOL MOLB.BU reached a deal in September for the continual supply of Russian oil through Belarus and Ukraine via the Druzhba pipeline, after Kyiv's addition of Russia's Lukoil LKOH.MM to a sanctions list in June led the Hungarian government to voice concerns about security of supply.
After Russia launched its full-scale invasion on Ukraine in February 2022, the EU adopted a package of sanctions against Moscow that included an import ban on all Russian seaborne crude oil and petroleum products with some limited exemptions.
Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Editing by Tom Hogue and Christopher Cushing
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