UN chief will meet Zelensky “to debate the continuation of the grain export scheme in all its elements.
Kyiv:
UN chief Antonio Guterres arrived in war-torn Ukraine Tuesday to fulfill with President Volodymyr Zelensky, in his third journey since Russia’s full-scale invasion, the United Nations introduced.
Guterres “is at present in Ukraine,” his deputy spokesman Farhan Haq instructed reporters, after UN officers had stated the secretary-general had arrived in Poland en path to Kyiv.
Guterres was as a result of arrive within the capital later Tuesday earlier than assembly with Zelensky Wednesday morning, in response to his workplace. He is because of depart Ukraine that day and be again at United Nations headquarters in New York on Thursday.
“We’ll provide you with particulars of the discussions he has with the president of Ukraine as soon as these have occurred,” Haq stated, including that “there is not any go to to Moscow deliberate” after the Kyiv cease.
The chief of the worldwide physique will meet Zelensky “to debate the continuation of the Black Sea Grain Initiative (grain export scheme) in all its elements, in addition to different pertinent points.”
No additional substantive data was supplied in regards to the go to, the third by Guterres after journeys to Ukraine in April and August final 12 months following Russia’s invasion on February 24, 2022.
At a UN Safety Council assembly held on the anniversary of the beginning of the warfare, Guterres slammed the invasion is a “blatant violation” of the UN Constitution and worldwide legislation.
“It has unleashed widespread demise, destruction and displacement,” he instructed the 15-member council, which incorporates everlasting member Russia, saying life was “a residing hell for the folks of Ukraine.”
Guterres has emphasised the human toll of the warfare, saying greater than eight million Ukrainians have fled to different components of Europe, and one other 5.4 million are internally displaced.
Half of Ukrainian youngsters have been compelled from their houses, and face greater dangers of violence, abuse and exploitation, he instructed the Safety Council final month.
The UN Normal Meeting voted overwhelmingly in late February to demand Russia withdraw its troops from Ukraine.
However the Safety Council assembly on the anniversary was largely symbolic.
The UN’s strongest physique has met 40 instances over the previous 12 months on the Ukraine warfare however has achieved little binding motion as a result of Russia’s wielding of its veto energy.
Over the previous 12 months, Guterres has commonly supplied to behave as mediator between Kyiv and Moscow ought to the 2 sides wish to begin a dialogue.
Throughout his first go to to Ukraine after Russia invaded, Guterres known as warfare “an absurdity in (the) twenty first century.”
That journey, throughout which he additionally met with Zelensky, was marred by a Russian air strike on Kyiv that left a journalist lifeless. The go to had adopted talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
Guterres’s journey in August centered on unblocking grain exports.
The Black Sea Grain Initiative was brokered by the United Nations with Turkey final July and has helped cut back spiraling meals costs that contributed to starvation within the growing world. The deal is about to run out this month.
Kyiv has seen a string of high-profile visits from Western leaders previously 12 months.
President Joe Biden of america, a key Ukraine backer, made the journey final month.
(Apart from the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV employees and is printed from a syndicated feed.)
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