Putin to receive UN Secretary General in Moscow

Moscow, Apr 22 (Prensa Latina) Russian President Vladimir Putin will receive United Nations Secretary General António Guterres, who will arrive in this capital to hold talks with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on April 26, the Kremlin reported today.

The announcement was released by presidential spokesman Dmitri Peskov in response to a request from the office of the UN’s top representative to make the visit.

A similar request was made to the permanent mission of Ukraine to the international organization in New York, with Guterres’ proposal to travel to Kiev and meet with the president of that country, Vladimir Zelensky.

According to the UN press service, the secretary general “wants to discuss urgent measures for peace in Ukraine and the future of multilateralism on the basis of the UN Charter and international law.”