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Minister: Orbán’s visit to Moscow ‘breaks ice’
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Hungary’s foreign minister has hailed Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week as a success, saying the summit had triggered a major wave of dialogue between Russia and the West, which was the only way to settle the situation in Ukraine peacefully.
Péter Szijjártó noted after an online foreign ministerial conference of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe that French President Emmanuel Macron and Putin had consulted for five hours on Monday. He also said that the British foreign and defence secretaries would visit Moscow in the days to come, and the German chancellor next week, the foreign ministry said in a statement.
“We are happy to see that the prime minister’s ice-breaking mission proved to be a success, with European leaders appearing one after the other in the Kremlin,”
he said.