“In connection with Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s visit to Moscow and its context, President K. Nawrocki has decided to limit the program of his visit to Hungary solely to the Visegrad Group presidential summit in Esztergom,” announced Marcin Przydacz, head of the International Policy Bureau at the Chancellery of the President of Poland.
On Friday, 28 November, a meeting took place in Moscow between Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin. The talks focused on energy supplies to Hungary and peace negotiations regarding the war in Ukraine.
“I want to confirm that energy supplies from Russia currently form the basis of Hungary’s energy security and will remain so in the future. We have important areas of cooperation, and we have not abandoned any of them, regardless of external pressure,” Orban said in Moscow, as quoted by the AP agency.
The visit occurred during intensive U.S.-initiated talks on ending the conflict triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
President Cancels a Meeting
Following Orban’s meeting with Putin, Poland’s President Karol Nawrocki changed his planned visit to Hungary.
Marcin Przydacz, head of the International Policy Bureau at the President’s Chancellery, stressed that President Nawrocki “consistently supports seeking real ways to end the war in Ukraine, triggered by the Russian Federation.”
“Referring in his policy to the legacy of President Lech Kaczyński, who emphasized that Europe’s security depends on acting in solidarity—including in the field of energy—President Karol Nawrocki, in connection with Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s visit to Moscow and its context, has decided to limit his Hungary visit solely to the Visegrad Group presidential summit in Esztergom,” Przydacz said.
The president had originally planned to take part in the Visegrad Group presidents’ meeting in Esztergom on 3 December and—together with his wife—to conduct an official visit to Budapest on 4 December.