Kiev has blasted Secretary-Common Antonio Guterres for collaborating within the the BRICS Summit in Russia
Ukrainian chief Vladimir Zelensky has rejected a go to to his nation by Antonio Guterres after the UN secretary-general attended the BRICS Summit in Russia this week, AFP reported on Friday, citing sources.
Leaders from around the globe gathered in Kazan this week for the sixteenth BRICS Summit. The UN chief’s spokesperson informed reporters that the assembly was “of nice significance” for the work of the United Nations, with the BRICS nations representing practically half of the world’s inhabitants. It’s “normal follow” for the secretary-general to attend “conferences of organizations with vital numbers of essential member states,” such because the G7 and G20, the spokesman acknowledged.
A high-ranking supply within the Ukrainian presidency informed AFP that the UN chief’s Russia journey had triggered fury in Kiev. The unnamed supply informed the outlet that “after Kazan, (Guterres) needed to come back to Ukraine, however (Zelensky) didn’t affirm his go to.”
“So Guterres received’t be right here, particularly due to the humiliation of sanity and worldwide regulation in Kazan,” the supply mentioned.
Guterres, who visited Russia for the primary time in over two years, held a number of bilateral conferences with the leaders attending the occasion. On Thursday night, the ultimate day of the summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin and the UN chief met behind closed doorways, reportedly addressing the crises in Ukraine and the Center East, in addition to questions associated to world growth and the worldwide monetary system.
Earlier that day, Guterres addressed the wide-format BRICS Plus/Outreach panel hosted by the Russian chief, with quite a few international dignitaries in attendance. The UN chief known as for a “simply peace” in Ukraine in addition to a direct ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon.
The Ukrainian Overseas Ministry beforehand condemned Guterres’ determination to go to Russia, noting that he had skipped this yr’s Swiss-hosted Ukraine ‘peace convention’.
“It is a fallacious selection that doesn’t advance the reason for peace. It solely damages the UN’s popularity,” the ministry wrote on X (previously Twitter) on Monday.
In June, Switzerland hosted a gathering which revolved round Zelensky’s ‘peace method’ – a ten-point want record that Moscow has dismissed as delusional. Russia was not invited to the assembly, which has been broadly perceived as a failure, yielding no concrete outcomes.
Russia is able to return to talks with Ukraine, however solely on the idea of the doc drawn up in Istanbul in March 2022, when the perimeters final sat on the negotiating desk, in keeping with Putin.
On Friday, the Russian president reiterated that Moscow is prepared for “rational compromise” whereas noting Kiev’s “irrational conduct which is difficult to foretell.”
