TURKISH PRESIDENT ERDOGAN MEETS UN CHIEF GUTERRES IN ANKARA

Mon 25 April 2022:

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday met UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in Ankara.

The meeting held at the Presidential Complex was closed to the press.

A spokesperson for Guterres said last week that the secretary-general will have a working meeting and lunch on April 26 with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and will be received by Putin in Moscow. “He hopes to talk about what can be done to bring peace to Ukraine urgently,” U.N. associate spokesperson Eri Kaneko said.

Guterres will have a working meeting with Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, and will meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky on April 28.

Turkey has been trying to negotiate an end to the conflict, hosting meetings between Russian and Ukrainian negotiators in Istanbul, as well as a summit between the two countries’ foreign ministers in Antalya.

Ankara urges the leaders of the two warring countries to have a meeting in Turkey in order to finalize a peace deal.

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