Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced intensified attacks on Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban over his plan for Ukraine, Ankara is watching the process with patience.
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“Last week on Wednesday, our guest was Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. After our meeting, he said: “We will have dinner with Trump (US presidential candidate).” At the same time, the NATO summit was taking place. The next day they (in the West ) began to intensively criticize Viktor Orbán. They said: “He said this, he said that, we do not agree with what Viktor said, what he said is not what is needed.” he was criticized. He went to China and was criticized in the same way. Then he attended a meeting in Shusha and was criticized there,” the Turkish leader told reporters on the plane upon returning from the unrecognized Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
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According to him, Ankara is following the process with patience.
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“Our role now is to be patient. I hope that with this patience, we will do everything necessary together when the time comes,” Erdogan said.
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Orban arrived in Moscow with a delegation on July 5 and held a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. He called the visit to Moscow the next stage of the peace mission, which began with a trip to Kyiv on July 2. The Hungarian Prime Minister said that he intends to hold several similar unexpected meetings soon. On Monday he visited Beijing, where he said that Hungary is against confrontation with China and for cooperation between the EU and China. After Beijing, the Hungarian prime minister went to Washington for the NATO summit, on the sidelines of which he met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He then held talks with former US President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.