Hungarian Foreign Minister said that the United States lifted sanctions related to the construction of PAKS NPP, which participates Rosatom

The United States lifted the sanctions related to the expansion of the Hungarian nuclear power plant PAKSH, said the country's foreign minister Peter Siyyarto, who is quoted by the Komárom-Sestergom news portal.

The sanctions were imposed by the previous administration of Joe Biden. According to Siyyarto, they were aimed at "undermining the long -term safety of energy supply to Hungary by introducing restrictions on the construction of the PAKS nuclear power plant, which made its continuation almost impossible."

The Foreign Minister of Hungary expressed gratitude to the administration of Donald Trump. He added that the production of equipment for nuclear power plants continues in Russia and France, and now "construction can get a new impulse."

• In December 2014, Russia and Hungary signed documents for the construction of the fifth and sixth blocks launched back in the 1980s of the Paksh NPP as part of the PAKSH-2 project. In the construction of the second stage of the nuclear power plant, Rosatom is involved, and the calculations between Russia and Hungary were carried out through Gazprombank, which fell under sanctions in November 2024. Earlier, Hungary has achieved from the European Union the complete withdrawal of the PAKSH-2 project from European sanctions introduced against Russia.