Hungarian president to skip NATO's eastern flank summit -Latvia

Hungary's new President Tamas Sulyok speaks as he attends his inauguration ceremony in Budapest, Hungary, March 10, 2024. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo/File Photo

VILNIUS (Reuters) -Hungary's President Tamas Sulyok will not attend the summit of the Bucharest Nine, a group of European countries on the eastern edge of NATO in Riga on Tuesday, Latvian president's office said.

The summit will not end with a joint declaration of the nine countries, the office added, for the first time since the format was established in 2015.