UN Chief Antonio calls for diplomacy to defuse tensions b/w Russia and Ukraine

United Nations (Web Desk) – United Nations chief Antonio Guterres talked to the remote priests of Russia and Ukraine on Monday, communicating “genuine concern” over the increased pressures between the nations, his representative said.

During the phone talks, Guterres told Russia’s beat negotiator Sergei Lavrov and Ukrainian Remote Serve Dymtro Kuleba that strategy was the as it were way forward, said representative Stephane Dujarric.
“The secretary common communicated to both outside priests his genuine concern over the increased pressures around Ukraine,” Dujarric told reporters. “He invited the progressing conciliatory talks to defuse those pressures and underline however once more the truth that there’s no elective to strategy,” the representative added.
Dujarric said Guterres was still persuaded that Russia will not attack Ukraine, a position he communicated amid a press conference on January 21. “I dont accept his supposition has changed in any way,” said the representative amid his every day briefing at the UN central command in Unused York.
The head of the world body was due to go to a month to month lunch Monday with 15 UN Security Board ministers at the political mission of Russia, which right now holds the turning administration of the council.
Afterwards, Guterres will make a articulation to the media, Dujarric said. The Joined together Countries has a few 1,660 staff in Ukraine counting 1,440 Ukrainians and 220 foreigners. “There are no plans for clearing or migration of UN staff” from Ukraine, Dujarric said.
The Security Committee is due Thursday to hold an yearly assembly on Ukraine and the Minsk assentions, which looked for to conclusion war within the eastern Donbas locale of Ukraine.