Hungary has offered to host peace talks between Russia and Ukraine twice, and the offer still stands, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in a podcast broadcast online on Thursday.
Szijjarto reacted to reports that the White House was eyeing the Hungarian capital Budapest as a venue for a possible trilateral meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
The U.S. Secret Service was preparing for the summit in the central European nation, with Budapest emerging as a first choice for the White House, Politico reported on Tuesday.
However, the foreign minister denied media reports published on Tuesday, that U.S. President Donald Trump called Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to talk about Ukraine’s European Union accession after Monday’s summit with Ukraine’s president and European leaders