UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres will travel next week to Russia where he will be received by Vladimir Putin, their first meeting since the start of Moscow's offensive in Ukraine, the Kremlin announced on Friday April 22.
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On Tuesday, April 26, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres will arrive in Moscow for talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
He will also be received by President Vladimir Putin
,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies.
The marginalized UN
Antonio Guterres on Tuesday sent letters to President Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, asking them to be received in Moscow and kyiv.
Since the beginning of the Russian intervention in Ukraine on February 24, the UN has been marginalized in the conflict, among other things because of the rupture caused by this crisis between the five permanent members of the Security Council, of which Moscow is a part with Washington, Paris, London and Beijing.
So far, Antonio Guterres has had very little contact with the Ukrainian president, with whom he only had a telephone exchange on February 26.
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Since Antonio Guterres claimed that Russia violated the UN Charter by sending troops to Ukraine, the Russian president for his part has declined any contact with the UN leader, whom he refuses to take on the phone.
On Tuesday, Antonio Guterres denounced the new Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine and asked both sides to stop fighting for a four-day "humanitarian break" on the occasion of Orthodox Easter.
