Strict US legal rules prevent re-elected President Donald Trump from currently negotiating a ceasefire in Ukraine. This was said on Tuesday in Budapest by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who met with Trump the day before in Florida. In a video published on Facebook, Orbán expressed his belief that after the new president of the USA takes office on January 20, the situation will change, reports the correspondent of TASR in Budapest.
According to Orbán, they only had a meeting with Trump at which they congratulated each other. “Especially me to him,” the prime minister added, noting that official negotiations will begin only when Trump takes over the office of head of state. “If two people today, whether in Europe or America, sit down to talk, they can hardly avoid talking about peace and war.” he underlined.
On Monday, Orbán met with Trump and billionaire Elon Musk at the residence of the newly elected American president in Mar-a-Lago, Florida. The two leaders also met in July and discussed “peace options”, with Orbán pushing for a ceasefire in Ukraine, said the spokesman of the Hungarian Prime Minister, Bertalan Havasi.
Orbán is a longtime Trump supporter. He is increasingly isolated in the European Union because of his ties to Russia and opposition to military aid to Ukraine. It was written on this occasion by the Reuters agency, according to which Orbán praises Trump as a “man of peace” who would quickly end the war in Ukraine, and he expects his close personal ties to the president-elect to boost his standing in politically fractured Europe and boost support from his far-right allies at a time when he faces serious obstacles at home.
