On Monday, Szijjarto participated in the 2024 Atomexpo International Forum in Russia's Sirius Federal Territory and held a meeting with the head of Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom, Alexey Likhachev.
"I wouldn't have any specific comments on this meeting and there are no sanctions in place at the moment which target the nuclear sector [of the Russian economy]," McPhie said when asked about Szijjarto’s visit to Russia.
Russia and Hungary have long been cooperating in the nuclear energy sector. Hungary's only nuclear power plant, the four-reactor Paks NPP, was built on a Soviet design and uses Russian-made reactors, with Russia supplying nuclear fuel for the plant. Budapest plans to expand the plant by adding two more reactors with the help of Rosatom under the Paks-II project.