- Title: Netanyahu arrives in Hungary for state visit
- Date: 3rd April 2025
- Summary: WESTMINSTER, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (APRIL 2, 2025) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF VIETNAMESE PLAZA LITTLE SAIGON BANNER VARIOUS OF PEOPLE TAKING PHOTOS (SOUNDBITE) (English) VI DANG, 30, INVESTOR SAYING: “It is a good strategy of fighting. So for me, I'm American. I live in America. I live in American culture. So I live under leadership of Donald Trump, right? So whatever he do
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- Keywords: arrival benjamin netanyahu budapest hungary israel motorcade palestinians state visit viktor orban
- Location: BUDAPEST, HUNGARY
- City: BUDAPEST, HUNGARY
- Country: Hungary
- Topics: Diplomacy/Foreign Policy,Europe,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA001378303042025RP1
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- Story Text:A motorcade said to be carrying Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu drove through the streets of Budapest early Thursday (April 3), as he began his four-day visit in Hungary, defying an International Criminal Court arrest warrant over allegations of war crimes in Gaza.
As a founding member of the ICC, Hungary is theoretically obliged to arrest and hand over anyone subject to a warrant from the court but Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban made clear when he issued the invitation that Hungary would not respect the ruling.
Netanyahu, who is battling a political storm at home over an investigation into suspected ties between Qatar and three of his aides, is due to meet Orban ahead of a news conference at around 1000 GMT.
The visit will be only the second he has made abroad since the ICC issued warrants to arrest both him and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant last November, but details of his program have been limited apart from a planned visit to a Holocaust memorial.
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