Hungary's Foreign Ministry said there was no invitation for PM Orban to Trump's inauguration

Prime Minister Viktor Orban did not receive an invitation to the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump. This was stated in a conversation with "RIA Novosti" on December 23 by the Minister of foreign Affairs and foreign economic relations of Hungary Peter Szijjarto.

"There were no such invitations," the Hungarian foreign minister said.

Orban met with US President-elect Donald Trump and entrepreneur Ilon Musk on December 9 at the Mar-a-Lago estate in the state of Florida.

Earlier on December 4, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó said Hungary had asked the United States to make an exception to sanctions against Gazprombank for payments for gas from Russia. According to him, he discussed the topic with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on the margins of a meeting of NATO diplomatic chiefs in Brussels. The diplomat noted that such an exception can not be called unusual, because several Russian banks have it to pay for uranium supplies to the United States.

Before that, on November 15, Orban said that the economic path of Europe is comparable to suicide. Thus, the result of the conflict in Ukraine, according to the politician, are problems with the Hungarian economy. In his opinion, the introduction of sanctions against Russia, imposed by Brussels, was wrong. Orban noted that the imposed restrictions led to an increase in energy prices, which caused inflation in the country. At the same time, European countries do not have enough money to finance the conflict.

On November 7, the Hungarian prime minister also said that after Donald Trump won the US presidential election, the EU had doubts about continuing to finance Ukraine.