Венгрия
Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s telephone conversation with Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó
On December 11, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke by telephone with Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary Péter Szijjártó, with the Hungarian side initiating the conversation.
As a follow-up to an earlier telephone conversation between President of Russia Vladimir Putin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán after the Hungarian leader discussed the Ukraine developments with US President-elect Donald Trump, Péter Szijjártó informed Sergey Lavrov that Vladimir Zelensky had rejected Hungary’s proposal for a temporary ceasefire on the Ukrainian front and a major POW exchange, as the Kiev regime officials had told Budapest. On the same day, Viktor Orbán made a respective statement.
In turn, Sergey Lavrov noted that this was by no means the first time that purely humanitarian initiatives, aimed at ensuring uninterrupted food shipments across the Black Sea and the safety of nuclear power plants, proposed by states genuinely interested in peace, including Hungary and Türkiye, are rejected by Kiev in spite of its own previous signals.
The Russian side reaffirmed its vision of a realistic way to end the conflict, which was set out in President Vladimir Putin’s speech on June14. The ministers agreed to continue close and trust-based dialogue on various aspects of the Ukrainian crisis, taking into account the assessments and ideas expressed by various states.