Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet next week with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, according to the Kremlin on Friday.
“On Tuesday, April 26, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will arrive in Moscow for talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told state news agency RIA Novosti. “It will also be received by Russian President Vladimir Putin,” he added.
Guterres sent letters to Russian and Ukrainian presidents Vladimir Putin and Volodymir Zelensky on Tuesday asking for a meeting in Moscow and Kiev, his spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, announced Wednesday.
Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, the UN has been marginalized from the conflict, among other reasons because of the rupture it caused between the five permanent members of the Security Council (Russia, the United States, France, Great Britain and China).
In this “time of great danger and consequences, (Guterres) would like to talk about urgent measures to pacify Ukraine and the future of multilateralism based on the Charter of the United Nations and international law,” the spokesman says.
The Secretary-General noted that “Ukraine and the Russian Federation are founding members of the UN and have always been fervent supporters” of the organization, he adds.
With these letters delivered to the UN's Russian and Ukrainian diplomatic missions, Guterres seeks to take the initiative and relaunch the dialogue to find a peaceful solution to the escalating war in Ukraine.
So far, Antonio Guterres has had little contact with the Ukrainian president, with whom he spoke on the phone on 26 February.
Since he claimed that Russia violated the UN Charter by invading Ukraine, the Russian president refused to agree to speak with Guterres.
On Tuesday, Antonio Guterres denounced the new Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine and called on the parties to cease fighting during a four-day “humanitarian pause” during Orthodox Easter.
(With information from AFP)
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