UN Secretary General Guterres to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres plans to hold talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly (GA), the Secretary-General’s official representative Stephane Dujarric reported. TASS.
“Yes, for now the meeting is scheduled for Thursday,” he noted, without specifying the topic of the upcoming negotiations.
Lavrov had previously said that Russia did not want an escalation of the conflict with the West. However, he also recalled Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s warning that allowing Ukraine to fire Western weapons deep into Russian territory would mean a war between the North Atlantic Alliance and Russia.
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