Hungary has canceled a foreign ministers' meeting with Germany scheduled for July 8 in Budapest due to technical reasons, its Foreign Ministry said on July 6. "Due to an unforeseen change in the minister's calendar, the Foreign Ministry has requested that the visit take place at a later date, hopefully in the near future," it said. "The reason is purely technical and not political." The German Foreign Ministry said on July 5 that it was "astonished" by the cancellation and a "serious and honest" discussion was needed after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban met Russian President Vladimir Putin on the same day.
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