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UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres Will Meet With Putin In Russia, Zelensky In Ukraine This Week

UN Secretary-General to meet separately next week with Putin and Zelenskyy. UN Photo/Mark Garten  

Moscow Times/AFP: UN Chief to Meet Putin in Russia, Zelensky in Ukraine 

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres will meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky in Ukraine next week after a stop in Moscow to confer with President Vladimir Putin about the war, the UN said Friday. 

Guterres will see Zelensky and Ukraine's foreign minister on Thursday, two days after visiting Moscow, the United Nations said in a statement. 

The Kremlin confirmed Friday that Putin would meet Guterres on Tuesday. 

Guterres sent letters this week requesting these in-person meetings to try to regain the initiative for the UN, which has been largely marginalized from the crisis since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24.  

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Update #1: UN Secretary-General to meet separately next week with Putin and Zelenskyy (UN News)  

Update #2: UN Chief to Meet With Putin, Zelenskyy to Press for Peace (AP)  

WNU Editor: It is appalling that it is only now that UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is making this trip. He should have made this trip weeks ago. 

Having said that, I have zero expectations that anything will be accomplished from this trip. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has adopted a very hard-core stance in support of Ukraine, and any role that he may have played as a mediator to end this conflict have been compromised.



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