Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is considered one of the closest associates of US President-elect Donald Trump, will not fly to his inauguration.
A spokesman for the Hungarian government, Zoltan Kovacs, explained that no world leader had received an "official" invitation from Trump to the inauguration.
▼ читать продолжение новости ▼"Anyone who will be there does so by personal invitation, and not in any official capacity, since this is not an opportunity for official conversations or meetings, but serves a completely different purpose," Kovacs said.
On the day when Trump will be sworn in as the next president of the United States, Viktor Orban will speak in Budapest at a conference dedicated to summarizing the results of Hungary's presidency in The Council of the EU, which ended at the end of last year.