Budapest [Hungary], December 13: Hungary has proposed a truce between Russia and Ukraine, according to Minister of the Prime Minister's Office Gergely Gulyas on Thursday.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been pursuing this objective in talks with other leaders, and has made every effort to ensure that at least during Christmas, there will be "an initial truce and ceasefire," according to Gulyas.
"At the end of Hungary's EU presidency, we made further efforts for peace ... We did everything we could," Orban wrote on his Facebook page on Wednesday evening.
Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto said communication channels remain open "in all directions," adding that they provide hope for the possibility of peace and peace negotiations in the future.
Source: Xinhua News Agency
