Prime Minister Viktor Orban held talks with Gazprom chief executive Alexey Miller on Tuesday to discuss current issues connected with Russian-Hungarian energy cooperation, the prime minister's spokesman Peter Szijjarto said on Tuesday.

Gazprom also reported the event on its homepage, noting that the officials reviewed progress of the planned South Stream gas pipeline project, agreeing that it was running according to schedule. They also discussed ways to make South Stream a project of national significance, it added.

Miller and Orban stressed that it was very timely and important to carry on with South stream because it meets the strategic interests of both countries, as well as Europe as a whole, Gazprom said in a statement.

The South Stream project is designed to carry Russian gas to the west, bypassing Ukraine.

(MTI)