Hungary still continues preparations for Trump-Putin summit, says Orbán
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said that preparations for a "peace summit" in his country are ongoing.
Source: Orbán on Facebook, as reported by European Pravda
Details: Orbán said on Wednesday 22 October that Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó is in Washington.
He wrote that preparations for a peace summit are continuing, although the date has not yet been set, adding that Hungary will host it when the time comes.
In a social media post, Orbán did not specify which summit he was referring to, but the context suggests that he meant a potential meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
He added that during the following day's Peace March, Hungarians would show the world that Budapest has been chosen for a reason – because Hungary is an island of peace and Hungarians stand on the side of peace.
Background:
- Western news agencies have reported unofficially that after a conversation between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, the Russian side handed the US an informal document repeating its previous maximalist demands for ending the war against Ukraine.
- Russia's rejection of an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine has cast doubt on the planned Budapest meeting between Trump and Putin.
- An unnamed White House official told reporters that the US no longer sees the need for a meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, which had been planned as part of preparations for the leader-level summit.
- Meanwhile, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó described reports about the cancellation of the Rubio-Lavrov talks as an attempt by pro-war circles to disrupt the summit.
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