Rubio will visit central Europe after attending the Munich Security Conference from Feb 13 to 15, the statement said.
According to the statement, Rubio’s talks in Budapest will aim to “bolster our shared bilateral and regional interests, including our commitment to peace processes to resolve global conflicts and to the U.S.-Hungary energy partnership.”
In Bratislava, Rubio will discuss nuclear energy cooperation, regional security, modernisation of the Slovak army, and Slovakia’s NATO commitments, the statement said.
The visit comes as Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced earlier, as reported by the Budapest Business Journal, that he will travel to Washington later this month to attend the inaugural meeting of U.S. President Donald Trump’s newly established Board of Peace and to hold bilateral talks. Hungary joined the board as a founding member on Jan. 22 at the World Economic Forum in Davos and is the only European Union country to do so.



