HUNGARY ASSERTS SOVEREIGNTY
Szijjarto mentioned Budapest wouldn’t seek the advice of different nations concerning the go to.
“We’ll be sure that he enters Hungary, has profitable negotiations right here, after which returns house,” he informed reporters.
“There isn’t a want for any form 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, mentioned the summit “will probably be about peace,” including {that a} deal might “usher in a brand new part of financial growth in Hungary and Europe.”
He mentioned the assembly might happen throughout the subsequent two weeks, relying on the end result of a deliberate assembly between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Overseas 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 kind of optimistic about receiving the weapons, Zelenskyy mentioned: “I’m sensible.”
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 impartial 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.
