BUDAPEST, October 22 (Xinhua) -- Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Wednesday that preparations for a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin "continue."
"Preparations for peace summit continue. The date is uncertain. When the time is right, we will make it happen," Orban wrote in a Facebook post.
Preparations for a possible meeting in Hungary's capital Budapest were put on hold following what was described as a "constructive but inconclusive" phone conversation between U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov earlier this week, U.S. media reported.
Following a phone conversation with Putin last week, Trump said he was ready to meet the Russian leader soon to seek a breakthrough in efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict. However, Trump said on Tuesday that his planned meeting with Putin had been shelved because he did not want to "waste" the meeting. ■
