PM Orbán: President Trump will end the war in Ukraine
As part of his peace mission, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met former US president Donald Trump on Thursday evening, the PM’s press chief said in a statement.
Based on Bloomberg, the Orbán-Trump summit shortly after the Orbán-Putin meeting strengthens worries that the Hungarian prime minister mediates between Trump and Putin. The Republican presidential candidate voiced several times that he would end the war in Ukraine and bring all American citizens home from Russian prisons.
Based on anonymous insiders talking to 444.hu, Trump did not ask the Hungarian prime minister to help hammer out a Ukrainian-Russian peace agreement. The source said the meeting was informal.
About the Orbán-Trump meeting, Bertalan Havasi, Orbán’s press chief, said that prospects for peace were discussed in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.
Foreign minister: ‘Massive tragedy’ if NATO turned into ‘anti-China bloc’
Whereas Hungary backs NATO cooperation with Indo-Pacific countries, this must not come at the expense of the potential “massive tragedy” of forming an “anti-China bloc” Péter Szijjártó, the foreign minister, said on the closing day of the NATO summit in Washington, DC on Thursday.
Szijjártó said it was “fine” if NATO focused on cooperation in the Indian Ocean region but only as long as it was not “directed against someone”. He said Hungary would not support “anyone pushing NATO’s Indo-Pacific relations in the direction of NATO becoming an anti-China bloc. That would be a massive tragedy.”
He said the world was already experiencing blockades, which were not in Hungary’s interests, “so we don’t want NATO to be an alliance against anyone”.
The minister welcomed that Indo-Pacific partnerships embraced “friendly countries such as South Korea and Japan”, noting their major role in Hungary’s economy and “automotive revolution”.
But NATO must take into consideration its role as a defence alliance when building foreign relations, he said. “We cannot become an aggressor alliance” and form “an anti-China bloc,” he added.
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