Serbia offers to pay for stake in Hungary's Paks nuclear power plant
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BELGRADE, Nov 14 (Reuters) -Serbia offered to pay Hungary for up to 10% of ownership in its Paks nuclear power plant as it seeks to diversify its energy supplies, President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday.
"I have asked Prime Minister (Viktor) Orban and we are ready to ... pay full price for 5% or 10% of ownership in the Paks nuclear power plant," Vucic told Serbian reporters in Budapest.
He said the Hungarian side did not immediately respond to his request.
Vucic did not specify whether Serbia wants a stake in Hungary's existing Paks four-reactor nuclear power plant or the Paks 2 which is under construction by Russia's Rosatom.
Serbia has no nuclear power plants of its own and has a ban on their construction, introduced in 1989 following the Chernobyl disaster.
The Balkan country which generates 70% of its electricity needs from polluting coal-fired power plants and depends on gas supplies from Russia, wants to diversify its energy supplies.
Last year Belgrade completed the interconnector to a pipeline in Bulgaria allowing Serbia to access gas from Azerbaijan and an LNG terminal in the Greek port of Alexandroupolis.
Reporting by Aleksandar Vasovic, additional reporting by Anita Komuves; Editing by Peter Graff and Jonathan Oatis
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