Hungarian PM Orban arrives in Moscow to meet Putin – Eurasia Business News

By Anthony Marcus, correspondent for Eurasia Business News, July 5, 2024. Article #1068.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrived in Moscow this morning for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Hungarian Prime Minister’s spokesman announced.

“As part of his peacekeeping mission, Russian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has arrived in Moscow. The head of government will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin,” said the press secretary of the Hungarian Prime Minister, Bertalan Havashi.

Before that, on July 2, Viktor Orban arrived in kyiv. During a meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky, he invited him to consider the possibility of a ceasefire before peace negotiations. The Ukrainian President’s Office later reported that Volodymyr Zelensky listened to Viktor Orban’s proposal and in response outlined Kiev’s position, according to which the country seeks peace through peace summits. Yesterday, July 4, Vladimir Putin said that the conflict with Ukraine is unlikely to end through intermediaries.

During his visit, he said that the issue of peaceful settlement of the Ukrainian conflict would be the most important during the six months of Hungary’s EU Council presidency. According to Orban, he would also like to use the meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to discuss the situation of the “Hungarian minority” living in the country’s Transcarpathian region of Ukraine. Orban is considered in the West as Moscow’s ally in the EU.

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Although Hungary currently holds the presidency of the EU Council, its president Charles Michel has said the country has no mandate to interact with Russia on behalf of the association. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has said the EU rules out the possibility of official contacts with the Russian president.

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