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The Diplomat
\nThe Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jos\u00e9 Manuel Albares, warned yesterday that the latest international initiatives of the Prime Minister of Hungary and current President of the EU Council, Viktor Orb\u00e1n, including his recent meeting with the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, \u201cdo not \"They represent Europe.\"
\n\u201cOf course he is flying freely and he is making trips that have no key other than a bilateral key, they do not represent Europe, of course,\u201d Albares declared to Spanish National Radio in relation to the meeting that Orb\u00e1n held last Friday. with Putin in Moscow, immediately after meeting in Kyiv with the president of Ukraine, Volodimi Zelensky.
\nOrb\u00e1n, Albares assured, \u201chas every right in the world\u201d to carry out bilateral visits \u201cthat he considers,\u201d but \u201che cannot speak on behalf of Europe\u201d because he \u201cdid not go to Moscow on behalf of Europe.\u201d \u201cThat must be very clear, the President of the Commission (Ursula von der Leyen), the High Representative (Josep Borrell) and, of course, the European governments made it very clear, that the trip to Moscow was not in name of the 27,\u201d he warned.
\nIn the minister's opinion, the country that holds the EU Presidency must \u201cbe careful and not fall into ambiguities\u201d and, therefore, must \u201cclearly separate when one speaks on behalf of the 27 and when one acts bilaterally.\u201d
\nAfter his meetings with Zelensky and Putin last week, the Hungarian prime minister met this Monday with the president of China, Xi Jinping, whose country, he declared, \u201cis a key power in creating conditions for peace in war of Ukraine\u201d and is \u201cthe only world power that has been clearly committed to peace from the beginning.\u201d
\nAccording to Orb\u00e1n, whose government assumed the rotating Presidency of the EU Council on July 1, Hungary \u201cwill consider the next six months as a peace mission to mediate between Russia and Ukraine.\u201d
\nIn his view, although the warring parties have the final say in the war, three world powers \u2013 China, the United States and the European Union \u2013 should have a decisive influence on when the conflict will end.
\nThis same Monday, Orb\u00e1n announced that he will visit Washington DC as part of his current \u201cpeace mission.\u201d Washington will host the annual NATO summit on July 9-11, where the Alliance is expected to address the possibility of providing more support to Ukraine.
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