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A senior adviser to Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said Sunday that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was “really not authorized” to speak on behalf of Ukraine in talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The panorama: The comment comes as Guterres prepares to meet Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday, before meeting with Zelenskyy and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Thursday.
- “We must act urgently to save lives, end human suffering and bring peace to Ukraine,” Guterres wrote. cheap Announcement of meetings on Friday.
News management: “It’s not a good idea to go to Moscow. We didn’t understand his intention to go to Moscow and talk to President Putin,” Igor Zhovkva, Zelenskyy’s top diplomatic adviser, told NBC’s Meet the Press program.
- “Any conversation about peace is good if it ends with a result,” said Jovkva. “I really doubt that the peace talks organized by the Secretary-General of the United Nations will come to any conclusion.”
- Zhovkva added that he believes the United Nations “is lagging behind in Ukraine in terms of humanitarian assistance to my country.”
- “The United Nations is lagging behind in Ukraine in terms of humanitarian assistance to my country,” he said. “Therefore it would be good if the UN Secretary-General would also focus on these things.”
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