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Slovakia has no plans to quit Russian oil supply quickly, President Peter Palegini told US President Donald Trump during a conversation in New York this week.
Trump is pressurizing the European Union holdouts – Hungary and Slovakia – to end the imports of Russian crude, arguing that it will help closure Moscow’s war financing and to move President Vladimir Putin towards peace talks.
But Slovakia, opposing a former Eastern European country that borders Ukraine, is citing limited capacity on technical obstacles and alternative routes.
“If there is a change in the coming years, it is called diversification,” Palegrini told Trump that when the pair was held in New York on 23 September, according to a statement emailed by the Slovacian leader’s office on Saturday.
According to the statement, “Slovakia requires three, four, five different sources of gas and energy. We cannot replace dependence on Russia with dependence on the United States.”
Palegini said that Slovakia cannot give adequate variety to its energy suppliers on short orders without technical and logical support.
He described the meeting with Trump as creative, the US President listening to his arguments. “She had a smile on her face, but she told me directly: do something about it,” said Palegini.
Separate this week, Hungary Prime Minister Victor Orban pushed back to energy against Trump, saying that leaving Russian oil and gas would ruin the country’s economy.
The European Union is considering business measures to target its remaining Russian oil imports, Bloomberg reported on 20 September citing people familiar with the schemes.
Only 3% of the European Union’s crude oil imports from Russia were estimated by the European Union in May, against Russia’s Ukraine before the invasion of Ukraine.
Trump has also pressurized Türkiye and India to prevent oil from buying oil from Russia.
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