UN Secretary Guterres to Meet President Putin at BRICS Summit
UN Secretary Antonio Guterres, 2024. X/ @editeszegedi
October 22, 2024 Hour: 2:23 pm
This will be their first meeting since the start of Russia’s special military operation in 2022.
The UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, will personally attend the BRICS summit in Kazan and will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Farhan Haq, the UN Secretary-General’s deputy spokesperson, confirmed that Guterres will go to Kazan as he did previously for the 2023 summit and “as has always been his custom when attending meetings of organizations with a large number of important member states, such as the G7 or G20.”
He added that the nations comprising the BRICS “represent almost half of humanity,” and therefore, the summit “is of great importance to the UN’s work with its member states.” Haq also confirmed that Guterres will meet with Vladimir Putin, as well as other leaders attending the summit, depending on their availability, as this is “one of the main reasons for his attendance.”
This will be the first time Guterres and Putin meet since the start of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine in February 2022. The spokesperson made it clear that Guterres will emphasize to Putin “his well-known stance on the war in Ukraine and the conditions for a just peace based on the UN Charter and its resolutions.”
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