Hungary to Russia: Let’s do more business – POLITICO

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said Thursday that Budapest is keen to strengthen economic ties with Moscow, despite ongoing European Union sanctions against Russia.

“Apart from the fact that we do not like the sanctions regime — although there are European rules that we have to comply with — we are very open about our desire to improve economic relations between Russia and Hungary in all areas that are not affected by sanctions,” Szijjártó told Russia’s state-owned TASS news agency Thursday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

Szijjártó then referred to a Hungarian-Russian Economic Cooperation Committee meeting held in Budapest last week, which was attended by Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko.