gas to Slovakia

Budapest, Jan 23 (IANS) Hungary is prepared to provide its full transit capacities to supply Slovakia with gas via the southern TurkStream pipeline, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto said here on Thursday. It is Hungary's sovereign right to decide about its energy sources and routes, rejecting any external pressure, Szijjarto said during a press conference in Budapest. He criticised the recent suspension of gas transit through Ukraine, calling it "unacceptable" and a threat to regional energy security. Ukraine stopped the transit of Russian natural gas to Europe on January 1, following the expiration of a five-year…