UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres asked: “I only have one thing to say from the bottom of my heart. President Putin, stop your troops from attacking Ukraine. Give peace a chancetoo many people have died already,” Guterres said as he opened an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council.
Before the fire started, Guterres insisted that “it’s time to deactivate” the crisis between Russia and the West over Ukraine, both on the ground and through diplomatic channels, respecting the Charter of the United Nations.
He confessed to being “deeply concerned” by the aggravation of tensions and “speculation” about a possible military conflict in Europe, and urged to abandon “incendiary rhetoric”, in a statement to the press at the UN headquarters.
Guterrez spoke by telephone this Monday with the foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine.
“We simply cannot accept even the possibility of such a disastrous confrontation.”he said, stressing that “there is no alternative to diplomacy.”
Guterres, who did not accept questions, asked Russia, without naming it, for “full respect” of the United Nations Charter that requires its members to refrain from “threatening or using force against the territorial integrity or political independence of a Condition”.
“Abandoning diplomacy for the benefit of confrontation is not overcoming a line, it is jumping off a cliff”warned when urging the parties in crisis to resolve their dispute by “peaceful means.”
A little earlier, his spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric, had said that Guterres remains convinced that there will be no Russian military intervention in Ukraine, the spokesman
“I don’t think his opinion has changed at all.”
At a press conference on January 21, Guterres said that in his opinion “there should be no military intervention.” “I’m convinced it won’t happen” and “I really hope I’m right,” he added.
The UN has 1,661 employees in Ukraine, including 1,441 Ukrainian nationals and 220 foreign nationals.
“There are no plans for the evacuation or redeployment of UN personnel,” the spokesman stressed, despite the fact that several countries have asked their nationals to leave the country for fear of a Russian invasion.
The UN Security Council will hold a meeting on Thursday on Ukraine and the implementation of the Minsk agreements reached in 2014 and 2015 to pacify the east of the country.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres asked: “I only have one thing to say from the bottom of my heart. President Putin, stop your troops from attacking Ukraine. Give peace a chancetoo many people have died already,” Guterres said as he opened an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council.
Before the fire started, Guterres insisted that “it’s time to deactivate” the crisis between Russia and the West over Ukraine, both on the ground and through diplomatic channels, respecting the Charter of the United Nations.
He confessed to being “deeply concerned” by the aggravation of tensions and “speculation” about a possible military conflict in Europe, and urged to abandon “incendiary rhetoric”, in a statement to the press at the UN headquarters.
Guterrez spoke by telephone this Monday with the foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine.
“We simply cannot accept even the possibility of such a disastrous confrontation.”he said, stressing that “there is no alternative to diplomacy.”
Guterres, who did not accept questions, asked Russia, without naming it, for “full respect” of the United Nations Charter that requires its members to refrain from “threatening or using force against the territorial integrity or political independence of a Condition”.
“Abandoning diplomacy for the benefit of confrontation is not overcoming a line, it is jumping off a cliff”warned when urging the parties in crisis to resolve their dispute by “peaceful means.”
A little earlier, his spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric, had said that Guterres remains convinced that there will be no Russian military intervention in Ukraine, the spokesman
“I don’t think his opinion has changed at all.”
At a press conference on January 21, Guterres said that in his opinion “there should be no military intervention.” “I’m convinced it won’t happen” and “I really hope I’m right,” he added.
The UN has 1,661 employees in Ukraine, including 1,441 Ukrainian nationals and 220 foreign nationals.
“There are no plans for the evacuation or redeployment of UN personnel,” the spokesman stressed, despite the fact that several countries have asked their nationals to leave the country for fear of a Russian invasion.
The UN Security Council will hold a meeting on Thursday on Ukraine and the implementation of the Minsk agreements reached in 2014 and 2015 to pacify the east of the country.
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