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Moscow, 21 April (EFE) .- Russia currently has no response to UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ request to travel to Moscow to meet with the authorities of that country to address the situation in Ukraine, as said the Kremlin.
“These requests come through the State Department. At the moment there is no answer,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at his daily press conference.
Guterres on Tuesday sent letters to the Presidents of Russia Vladimir Putin and Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, asking them to meet him on a possible visit to Moscow and Kyiv.
In those letters, he reminds them that both Russia and Ukraine are founding members of the UN and “have always solidly supported the organization,” but now we are “in times of great peril.”
Guterres said he wanted to discuss “urgent steps to bring peace to Ukraine” with them.
This week, the UN Secretary-General proposed that Russia and Ukraine declare a four-day “Easter truce” (relating to the Orthodox Easter).
Ukraine backed the initiative to declare a “humanitarian pause” to help evacuate civilians from areas hardest hit by the fighting, while pro-Russian militias in Donbas questioned its effectiveness, blaming Kyiv for earlier during the eight-year conflict to have broken ceasefires in the region. EFE
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