Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban plans to meet with Russia’s president Vladimir Putin on 1 February to discuss the progress of a Russian-backed project to expand the Paks nuclear power station, Hungary’s foreign minister said Thursday.
Speaking on the sidelines of a United Nations Security Council meeting in New York, foreign minister Peter Szijjarto told Russian state news agency Tass that Hungary wants the project to “enter into the establishment phase” of the project in the first half of this year.
The expansion of the Paks nuclear station in central Hungary involves the construction of two new nuclear reactors. The work is to be carried out by the Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom and financed with a €10bn loan from a Russian state bank.
Speaking on the sidelines of a United Nations Security Council meeting in New York, foreign minister Peter Szijjarto told Russian state news agency Tass that Hungary wants the project to “enter into the establishment phase” of the project in the first half of this year.
The expansion of the Paks nuclear station in central Hungary involves the construction of two new nuclear reactors. The work is to be carried out by the Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom and financed with a €10bn loan from a Russian state bank.
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