Zelensky, Orbán may meet in July – Kuleba

25.06.2020 13:54

Ukrinform

The Ukrainian side expects that a summit with the participation of President Volodymyr Zelensky and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will be held in July, but a number of conditions still have to be fulfilled.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said this at a joint briefing with Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó in Kyiv on Thursday, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

"The Ukrainian side is set to hold this summit in July. As far as I understood from our conversation with Péter today, our Hungarian colleagues have the same intention," Kuleba said.

At the same time, he emphasized that the main thing is to prepare a truly meaningful meeting of the leaders. “Not a regular meeting, but a meeting to open a new page in Ukrainian-Hungarian relations,” the minister stressed.

He, in particular, said that today's meeting of the Joint Ukraine-Hungary Intergovernmental Commission on Economic Cooperation is one of the steps for preparing the summit of the leaders of Ukraine and Hungary.

Also, according to him, meetings of the Commission on National Minorities and the Group on Education should be held.

As reported, the fourth meeting of the Joint Ukraine-Hungary Intergovernmental Commission on Economic Cooperation co-chaired by Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba and Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó was held in Kyiv on June 25.

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