Hungary has cancelled a foreign ministers meeting with Germany scheduled for Monday in Budapest due to technical, not political, reasons, its Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.
The German foreign ministry said on Friday that it was “astonished” by the cancellation and that a “serious and honest” discussion was needed after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban met Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday.
The Moscow meeting was the first meeting of an EU leader with Putin in Moscow since April 2022, two months after Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The meeting angered some European Union leaders who warned against appeasing Moscow and said Orban did not speak for the EU.
匈牙利外交部周六表示，由于技术原因而非政治原因，匈牙利取消了原定于周一在布达佩斯举行的与德国外长会晤。
德国外交部周五表示，对取消会晤“感到震惊”，并表示在匈牙利总理维克托·奥尔班周五会见俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京后，需要进行“严肃而坦诚”的讨论。
莫斯科会晤是自 2022 年 4 月以来，即莫斯科全面入侵乌克兰两个月后，欧盟领导人与普京在莫斯科的首次会晤。
此次会晤激怒了一些欧盟领导人，他们警告不要绥靖莫斯科，并表示奥尔班不能代表欧盟。
