Kathmandu: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres To Meet Russian President Putin On April 26, Will Meet Ukraine’s Zelenskyy On 28. He will visit Ukraine on April 28 where he will meet Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba. “The Secretary-General will visit Ukraine next week.
Gutteres will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for lunch and working discussions. According to UN spokesperson Eri Kaneko, the “urgent visit” is significant as the war entered day 58.
The UN chief will discuss “steps that can be taken right now in order to silence the guns, in order to help the people, and in order to allow the people who need to get out and have safe passage,” Kaneko told reporters.
The meeting was confirmed by Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov.
Notably, the visit was announced shortly after Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova about four days ago slammed the apex peacekeeping body for neglected behaviour towards Russia since the beginning of the “special military operation.” She had called out Secretary-General Gutteres of “not being in touch” even with the Permanent Mission of Russia to the UN or Russian Foreign Ministry to discuss the worst war on Europe’s soil in decades.