Dujarric: Guterres could meet Lavrov next week in New York

1/18/2024, 6:55:19 PM

Highlights: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres may meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in New York next week. This was announced by the official representative of the Secretary General, Stephane Dujarric. Lavrov will participate in person in the UN Security Council debates on the Middle East and a meeting on Ukraine. He will outline proposals for collective conflict resolution, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced earlier this week. The meeting is expected to take place next week, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The UN secretary-general will discuss “everything that the Foreign Minister wants to discuss”

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres may meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in New York next week.

This was announced by the official representative of the Secretary General, Stephane Dujarric.

“He will meet (with Lavrov. -

),” RIA Novosti quotes him.

Dujarric clarified that Guterres, at a possible meeting with Lavrov, will discuss “everything that the Foreign Minister wants to discuss.”

Earlier, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova announced that the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry will visit New York to participate in person in the UN Security Council debates on the Middle East and a meeting on Ukraine.

Lavrov will outline proposals for collective conflict resolution.