Ukrainian and Turkish leaders discuss Ukraine peace efforts in Washington, Orbán seeks support for his plan
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met with Turkish
leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Washington, D.C., as part of his “peacekeeping
mission,” he announced in a video message posted on X on
July 10.
The most important topic of the meeting was Russia’s war
against Ukraine, which, in his words, “has entered a new phase that is more
brutal than ever before.”
Orbán also asked Erdogan to support him “in his peace
mission.”
“The positions of the warring parties to the war are still
far from each other, but if the friends of peace join forces, together we can
take the next step in the direction of peace,” he said.
Viktor Orbán’s visit to Kyiv and Moscow
Orbán officially arrived in Moscow on July 5.
Russian propaganda agency TASS reported that he would meet
with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
Prior to that, some media outlets reported that Orbán was
likely to visit Russia. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk reacted to this.
“The rumors about your visit to Moscow can’t be true, can
they, Viktor Orbán?” he wrote on X on July 4.
President of the EU Council Charles Michel also stressed
that Hungary, as the presidency of the Council of Europe since July 1, has no
mandate to negotiate on behalf of the EU with Russia.
Orbán’s visit to Ukraine on July 2, 2024, his first in 12
years, came as a surprise. In Kyiv, he met with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and
proposed the idea of a “ceasefire” for faster negotiations with Russia. He
stated that Ukraine’s peace initiatives “take a lot of time” and therefore “asked
Zelenskyy to think about whether it is possible to do otherwise: first, to
cease fire, and then to negotiate peace.”
In response, Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Ihor
Zhovkva said that “Hungary is not the first country to talk about such a
scenario.” Zhovkva made it clear that Zelenskyy had actually rejected such
proposals: he listened to Orbán, “but in response, he stated his position,
which is clear and known to everyone.”
Orbán arrived on a visit to Beijing on July 8.
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