HUNGARY ASSERTS SOVEREIGNTY
Szijjarto stated Budapest wouldn’t seek the advice of different nations in regards to the go to.
“We’ll make sure that he enters Hungary, has profitable negotiations right here, after which returns residence,” he informed reporters.
“There isn’t a want for any sort of session with anybody — we’re a sovereign nation. We’ll obtain him with respect, host him, and supply the situations for him to barter with the American president.”
Orban, a long-time Trump ally who has maintained shut ties with Moscow, stated the summit “will likely be about peace,” including {that a} deal might “usher in a brand new part of financial improvement in Hungary and Europe.”
He stated the assembly might happen throughout the subsequent two weeks, relying on the result of a deliberate assembly between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian International Minister Sergei Lavrov subsequent week.
ZELENSKYY “REALISTIC” AFTER WHITE HOUSE MEETING
Earlier on Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met Trump on the White Home, the place the 2 mentioned air defence wants, together with Kyiv’s request for long-range Tomahawk missiles.
Nevertheless, no deal was reached, and when requested if he was now roughly optimistic about receiving the weapons, Zelenskyy stated: “I’m lifelike.”
Relations between Budapest and Kyiv stay fraught. Zelenskyy final month accused Hungary of flying drones into Ukrainian territory, prompting Orban to retort that Ukraine “was not an unbiased sovereign state.”
Hungary has additionally remained reliant on Russian oil and gasoline provides, even because the EU seeks to part them out by 2028. Orban has accused Brussels of taking a “pro-war stance” and urged Europe to open its personal diplomatic channels with Russia forward of the Trump-Putin assembly.
