BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Preparations for a meeting in Budapest between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are still ongoing, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Wednesday, a day after the summit was put on hold.

The planned meeting was paused as Moscow’s rejection of an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine cast a cloud over attempts at negotiations.

“(Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter) Szijjarto is in Washington. Preparations for the peace summit are continuing. The date is still uncertain. When the time comes, we will hold it,” Orban wrote on Facebook.

Trump had announced last week that he and Putin would meet soon in Hungary to try to bring an end to the war in Ukraine.

On Tuesday, Trump said that he did not want to have a “wasted meeting” but suggested t

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