According to Orban, the Russian-American summit in Budapest remains on the agenda, although it has been postponed.
“What is delayed will still happen. Just not when we want, but a little later,” the Hungarian prime minister believes.
Orban added that the “peace negotiations” between Ukraine and the aggressor country of the Russian Federation are stuck on the territorial issue.
The problem is that Russia first wants to occupy the entire Donetsk region (22% of the region remains under Ukrainian control) and only then negotiate peace, the Hungarian Prime Minister noted.
Orban emphasized that the agreement between Ukraine and the occupying country of the Russian Federation was close to success after negotiations between delegations in Istanbul in the spring of 2022, but allegedly “the Anglo-Saxons thwarted it.”
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Trump announced on October 16 that he intended to hold a meeting with Putin in Hungary. He did not announce the date of the summit, but noted that negotiations at the level of foreign ministers were planned before this.
On October 22, Trump said he had canceled a summit with Putin in Budapest, but he said they would meet “in the future.”
On the same day, the US Treasury imposed sanctions against the Russian oil companies Rosneft and Lukoil due to “Russia’s lack of serious commitment to the peace process aimed at ending the war in Ukraine.”
According to Orban, the Trump-Putin summit is hampered by “one or two unresolved issues.” Afterwards, there may be peace in Ukraine, the Hungarian prime minister added in an interview published on November 6.
On November 7, Trump said that the Russian Federation does not yet want to end the war against Ukraine. “I didn't want this meeting because I didn't think that [на ней] something significant will happen. But if we hold it, I would like it to take place in Budapest,” the American president emphasized.
