The head of Russian Gazprom Alexey Miller was in Hungary yesterday where he held talks with Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
“The parties reviewed the progress with the South Stream gas pipeline project, highlighting its strict compliance with the schedule. A focus was placed on the issues of granting the national significance status to the project,” a Gazprom statement said.
Miller and Orban stressed that the South Stream implementation was of “great value and immediacy, and that the project served the strategic interests of both countries as well as the European region in general,” the statement added.