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Hungary decides to join AGRI project

03 September 2010 11:25 (UTC +04:00)

Baku - APA. Romania’s Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi on Wednesday said that if Hungary wants to join the AGRI Azerbaijan- Georgia-Romania Interconnection project, steps have to be quickly taken to this end, ACTmedia reported.

’If Mr. Orban, the Hungarian prime minister, does not want to go to Baku as observer, but as co-signor of the document, we have to work quickly to have Hungary agree on the already agreed upon text of the declaration of the AGRI three chairs. I hope we will not run out of time to conduct this operation so that we may enlarge the format on a legal basis decided upon in four this time,’ Baconschi told a join news conference with his Hungarian counterpart Janos Martonyi.

He added that Martonyi’s presence at the ongoing annual meeting of the Romanian diplomacy is a clear political sign of Romania and Hungary’s wish to boost the region’s voice through better coordination at the level of the new member states.

Martonyi’s ongoing visit to Romania signals the capitalisation in Europe’s interests on the agenda of the future Hungarian presidency of the European union.

In his turn, Martonyi said his attendance of the annual meeting of the Romanian diplomacy is the expression of continuing progress that characterises the Hungarian-Romanian bilateral relationship. He added that as far as the political developments in the European Union are concerned the two countries have converging interests.

’There are many issues we have approached and our interest is in consolidating the common energy policy of the EU and a series of common policies that characterise the policy of the two countries,’ said Martonyi.The Hungarian foreign minister said that Hungary will be counting on Romania’s support during the time it will hold the six-month rotating presidency of the EU, Agerptres informs.