Prime Minister will meet former US President later on Thursday in Florida, according to several news outlets.
Citing three separate sources, news agency Reuters reported that the agenda of the meeting was not clear, but the would be a topic of conversation.
On Wednesday, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said that Budapest saw a “chance for peace” in Ukraine if Trump was to return in office.
The Republican Party is set to officially nominate Trump as its candidate for the at its convention next week.
Orban’s controversial movements
Orban is in the US to attend the NATO summit in Washington, DC. His visit comes on the heels of a string of controversial surprise trips the leader embarked on earlier this month, just as Hungary took over the six-month rotating presidency of the European Union.
earlier this week and met Chinese President Xi Jinping on a self-proclaimed
Orban’s visit to the Chinese capital came after his recent trips to Kyiv and Moscow, where he attempted to position himself as a mediator pushing for an end to the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine. He also met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow last week.
Orban is the only European Union leader to have maintained close relations with Putin since Russia’s full-scale invasion. He has refused to send weapons to Ukraine and has regularly opposed and challenged EU support for Kyiv.
The Hungarian prime minister’s visits have been criticized by the EU and some of its members, with many stressing he did not represent the bloc.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stressed again the Hungarian prime minister was not acting on behalf of the EU, after news of his scheduled meeting with Trump.
rmt/lo (EFE, Reuters)
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