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Bloomberg

Former US president Donald Trump will meet with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Florida on Thursday, according to people familiar with the matter, less than a week after he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
The visit is likely to fan concerns that the Hungarian leader is working as an intermediary between Putin and Trump.
Trump and Putin professed a fondness for one another during the US president’s first term – often garnering bipartisan criticism.
More recently, the Republican leader has said he believed he could convince Putin to end his war in Ukraine and release Americans detained in Russia if he were elected to a second term.

Orban will travel to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort after the conclusion of the Nato summit in Washington.
His visit to Moscow became a central point of discussion at the gathering, where other allies pledged additional air defences for Ukraine in its continuing campaign against the full-scale Russian invasion that began in 2022.
Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, has not asked the Hungarian leader to lay the groundwork for some sort of Ukraine-Russia peace deal, according to one of the people familiar with the Orban visit, who was granted anonymity to discuss it.
The person described the visit, which will take place days before the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, as more of an informal get-together.
Orban also paid a visit this week to President Xi Jinping in China, following a trip to Azerbaijan earlier this month.
Trump campaign spokespeople didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Spokespeople for the Hungarian government didn’t immediately comment.
Hungary took over the European Union’s rotating presidency July 1. EU officials have criticised Orban’s travels, arguing they could undermine the 27-member bloc’s positions on global issues.
Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told CBS News’s Face the Nation on Sunday that Orban “made it clear when he came to Moscow that he didn’t go there on behalf of Nato.”


“Different Nato allies interact with Moscow in different ways,” he added.
The Hungarian leader and Trump have cultivated a close relationship, with Orban visiting Mar-a-Lago in March.
Trump feted him with a tour of his residence, dinner with former first Lady Melania Trump, an hour-long meeting with senior aides, and musical performance by a band covering Roy Orbison songs.
US President Joe Biden seized on that meeting at a subsequent political rally in Philadelphia, saying Orban “doesn’t think democracy works” and was “looking for dictatorship”.
The Biden administration has criticised Orban over his friendly relations with Putin, as well as legislation in Hungary that the State Department warned could “intimidate and punish” critics of Orban’s government.


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Hungary’s Orban will visit Trump in Florida after Nato summit in Washington

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Donald Trump at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida in March. File photo: EPA-EFE/Zoltan Fischer

 Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Photo: Kremlin via dpa

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks to the media in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday. Photo: Reuters

Orban (left), walking with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow on Friday, has made Hungary the most pro-Russian voice among EU members since the Ukraine war began in 2022. Photo: EPA-EFE

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Orban had “not received any mandate from the EU Council to visit Moscow”. Photo: AFP

Ukrainian rescuers, medical staff and volunteers clean up the rubble and search for victims after a Russian missile hit the country’s main children’s hospital in Kyiv on Monday. Photo: AP

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Chinese President Xi Jinping meets Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Monday. Photo: China Daily via Reuters

Hungarian leader Viktor Orban is greeted by Hua Chunying, Chinese foreign vice-minister, after arriving in Beijing. Photo: X/@PM_ViktorOrban

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin leave after a press conference in Moscow on July 5. Photo: EPA-EFE

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Expected meeting on Thursday would come days after the Hungarian leader met with Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin


Visit is likely to fan concerns among Nato allies that the Hungarian leader is working as an intermediary between Putin and Trump.
