Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is not participating in the official program of the NATO summit in The Hague because the United States, Turkey, Slovakia and Hungary did not want to sit at the same table with him, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said.
“The fact that President Zelenskyy is not participating in the NATO summit in any official way is the main sign that the previous chapter has ended. The US, Turkey, Slovakia and we have made it clear that we do not want to sit at the same table with Mr. Zelenskyy when it comes to NATO,” Orban said in a video message published on social media on Tuesday.
The Hungarian prime minister clarified that he is also “not happy to see” Zelenskyy at the EU summit on Thursday and Friday.
“It is in Hungary’s national interests not to be part of any integration community with Ukraine, neither NATO nor the EU,” Orban added.
In May, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that ensuring Ukraine’s neutral, non-aligned, nuclear-weapon-free status is one of Russia’s conditions for resolving the Ukraine conflict.
