The UN secretary general will meet with Putin and then with Zelensky

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The Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, will travel next Monday to the Russian capital, Moscow, where he will meet with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergy Lavrov, and later with the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, in the context of the invasion of Ukraine, before

travel to kyiv to meet two days later with the Ukrainian counterparts, Dmytro Kuleba and Volodimir Zelenskyy, informed the UN Press Center.

“Next week I will meet with President Vladimir Putin in Russia and with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Ukraine.

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Guterres not he will only see the presidents and foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine, he will also meet with the staff of UN agencies to discuss “how to optimize humanitarian assistance to the people of Ukraine”.

Hours before this announcement, the secretary general had informed of his trip to Moscow next Tuesday, where he would hold “a working meeting” with the head of Russian diplomacy, Serguei Lavrov , before being received by Putin.

Although it has not been described as a “mediation” mission, This is the first trip Guterres has made to the two countries immersed in a war since mid-February, when Russia launched its troops against the east and northern Ukraine, triggering the largest movement of refugees in Europe for several decades.

Only a week ago, Guterres proposed to Putin and Zelensky an “Easter truce” on the occasion of the Orthodox Easter which began yesterday and will continue until Sunday, but received no response from Russia.

Regarding the call for a truce for Orthodox Easter, Guterres is “disappointed not so much because his personal call is not heard, but because civilians cannot escape from those areas and the aid that the The UN is ready to deliver it cannot arrive”, said the spokeswoman for the UN Press Center.

The UN as a whole has been put in interdicted during the war in Ukraine for his inability to stop the war or even achieve a truce or an agreement for “humanitarian corridors” , mainly due to the right of veto that Russia has in the Security Council d as one of its permanent members.

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