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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
BUDAPEST, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) — The European Union should not set conditions for talks to which its leaders have not been invited, but should initiate its own summit with Russia, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Tuesday, explaining why his country did not join the EU leaders' joint statement on Ukraine.
Earlier in the day, the 26 EU member states adopted a declaration welcoming US President Donald Trump's stated efforts to help end the conflict in Ukraine ahead of the American leader's planned meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska later this week. Hungary was the only EU country not to endorse the document.
“The declaration attempts to set conditions for a meeting to which EU leaders were not even invited,” Orban wrote on social media. “The fact that the EU was left out is sad enough in itself.”
He added that the only sensible step would be to initiate an EU-Russia summit, following the example of the planned US-Russia meeting. “Let’s give peace a chance,” the prime minister suggested.
The declaration issued by the EU says that a “just and lasting peace” must be based on international law, including respect for the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, and that borders cannot be changed by force. EU leaders reaffirmed their readiness to continue political, financial, economic, humanitarian, military and diplomatic support for Ukraine, including its right to self-defence and its course towards EU membership.
Trump and Putin are scheduled to meet in Alaska on August 15 to discuss a possible ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine and ways to improve bilateral relations. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and EU officials were not invited to the talks. –0–
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