Guterres will meet with Zelensky and Erdogan in Ukraine – INFORMATION

The UN Secretary General, António Guterres, will travel to Ukraine this week, where he plans to hold a trilateral meeting with the country’s president, Volodímir Zelenski, and with the Turkish leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as announced by the United Nations. The meeting will take place next Thursday in the city of Lviv, and the following day Guterres will visit Odessa and its port, which is being used for the export of Ukrainian grain through the agreement promoted by the organization itself and Turkey. Later, the head of the United Nations will travel to Istanbul to visit the Joint Coordination Center (CCJ) that oversees compliance with that pact, explained his spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric. According to Dujarric, Guterres will travel to Ukraine at the government’s invitation and it is expected that part of the trilateral meeting with Zelenski and Erdogan will focus on reviewing the operation of the initiative that has made it possible to unblock grain exports through the Black Sea. Macron ratifies the accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO In addition, the UN Secretary General plans to hold a bilateral meeting with the Ukrainian president, in which he will a priori address the general state of the conflict, the need for a political solution and other issues such as the situation at the Zaporizhia nuclear plant and attempts to deploy a mission of international experts to assess it on the ground, the spokesman said. Guterres already traveled to Ukraine last April, as part of a tour in which he also passed through Turkey and Russia and in which the evacuation of civilians from the besieged Azovstal plant in Mariupol was organized, which took place a few days later with the support from the ONU. On that trip, the agreement for cereal exports also began to take shape, which took months to crystallize.