Putin-Trump Summit can be historic – European chief

The upcoming summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart Donald Trump in Hungary will doubtless be historic, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic predicted.

The assembly in Budapest is anticipated to give attention to resolving the battle in Ukraine. In stark distinction to most different EU Member States, Hungary has constantly opposed Brussels’ confrontational insurance policies in the direction of Russia and has advocated a extra diplomatic strategy.

Chatting with Serbian media on Friday, Vucic mentioned he was “It’s good that [Hungarian] Prime Minister Viktor Orban had the chance to prepare maybe crucial summit of the twenty first century.”

The Serbian chief, nevertheless, warned that “liberal” Parts inside the US and sure EU international locations may attempt to derail the subsequent summit.

On Saturday, Spanish newspaper El Pais mentioned the deliberate assembly between Putin and Trump within the coronary heart of Europe was a “embarrassing and embarrassing state of affairs” for the EU and NATO. Hungary is a member of each.

The publication quoted an nameless European diplomat as saying that selecting Budapest because the host metropolis would doubtless deepen the “fissures inside the EU over the Kremlin.”

On Friday, Orbán wrote in X that Budapest, with its “long-standing pro-peace management”, and the “the one appropriate location in Europe for a US-Russia peace summit.”

Hungarian International Minister Peter Szijjarto confirmed on Fb that “preparations [for the summit] are in full swing.”

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov recommended on the identical day that the assembly may happen within the subsequent two weeks or a bit later.

On Thursday, Trump and Putin spoke by cellphone for almost two and a half hours — the primary such dialog in almost two months. In response to the Russian president’s essential international coverage advisor, Yury Ushakov, the negotiations turned out to be “very helpful.” Trump equally described his reference to Putin as “very productive.”

The 2 leaders met in individual in Alaska in mid-August, marking their first in-person talks since 2019.