Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced at a Fidesz gathering on Saturday that he will be visiting Washington D.C. in two weeks for an inaugural meeting of the Board of Peace. U.S. President Trump initiated the new group as an alternative to the United Nations, and Orbán believes it will help bring peace to Ukraine and other areas of the world.
The White House has invited 60 countries, of which 35 have so far accepted, including Hungary, Israel, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Argentina, Albania, Kosovo, Pakistan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Indonesia. China and Russia have not yet committed, while other major Western powers, including France, Germany, Norway, and the U.K. have declined. Canada, meanwhile, had its invite withdrawn.
🇺🇸🤝🇭🇺@PM_ViktorOrban: I received an invitation from @realDonaldTrump last night to meet again in Washington in two weeks' time, because the inaugural meeting of the established Board of Peace will be held in Washington. pic.twitter.com/lGEk8i3Z3D
— Zoltan Kovacs (@zoltanspox) February 7, 2026Peace in Ukraine remains central to Orbán’s campaign ahead of the April election. In his weekly interview last Friday, Orbán said that if Donald Trump had been president in 2022, there would have been no war in Ukraine. Budapest also believes that Western European leaders are “sabotaging” the U.S. president and his administration’s efforts to bring peace.
“We are not the largest country, but we are the only ally of the United States in the cause of peace,” the Hungarian prime minister told listeners. He also warned against escalating a war between Europe and Russia, which he says is the goal in Brussels.
The Fidesz leader also applauded the amount of American investments being made in Hungary, especially as the U.S. has been withdrawing elsewhere under the Trump administration.
