3 hours ago
1
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrived successful Russia connected Wednesday to attend this week’s BRICS summit, his archetypal sojourn to the state successful much than 2 years.
Russia is hosting the three-day acme successful the Tatarstan superior of Kazan, wherever the talker of the determination legislative assembly greeted Guterres aft his level landed astatine the city’s airport.
Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry slammed the visit, saying the UN main made the “wrong prime that does not beforehand the origin of peace” aft earlier rejecting an invitation to attend Kyiv’s bid acme successful Switzerland.
The United Nations maintains that BRICS — a nine-member enactment that includes China and India — holds “great importance” fixed the bloc represents astir fractional the world’s population.
Guterres is expected to present a code astatine the BRICS summit, his lawman spokesperson Farhan Haq told reporters Tuesday.
He besides plans to conscionable Russian President Vladimir Putin connected Thursday, wherever helium volition “reaffirm his well-known positions connected the warfare successful Ukraine and the conditions for conscionable bid based connected the UN Charter.”
“He volition proceed to prosecute his efforts to re-establish harmless navigation successful the Black Sea, which is critically important for planetary nutrient and vigor security, particularly for the astir susceptible countries astir the world,” Haq said.
Guterres volition sojourn Ukraine astatine a “mutually convenient time,” helium added.
BRICS takes its sanction from the archetypal letters of the 5 archetypal members Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The radical expanded earlier this twelvemonth to see Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates.
A Message from The Moscow Times:
Dear readers,
We are facing unprecedented challenges. Russia's Prosecutor General's Office has designated The Moscow Times arsenic an "undesirable" organization, criminalizing our enactment and putting our unit astatine hazard of prosecution. This follows our earlier unjust labeling arsenic a "foreign agent."
These actions are nonstop attempts to soundlessness autarkic journalism successful Russia. The authorities assertion our enactment "discredits the decisions of the Russian leadership." We spot things differently: we strive to supply accurate, unbiased reporting connected Russia.
We, the journalists of The Moscow Times, garbage to beryllium silenced. But to proceed our work, we request your help.
Your support, nary substance however small, makes a satellite of difference. If you can, delight enactment america monthly starting from conscionable $2. It's speedy to acceptable up, and each publication makes a important impact.
By supporting The Moscow Times, you're defending open, autarkic journalism successful the look of repression. Thank you for lasting with us.
Continue
Not acceptable to enactment today?
Remind maine later.
.png "indianexpress.")
.png "khaleejtimes")
.png "arabnews")
.png "gulfnews"){kind=logo}
English (US) · 
Hindi (IN) ·