Stéphane Dujarric was responding to a journalist’s query in regards to the assembly held yesterday between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, his American counterpart Donald Trump, and a number of other European leaders on the White Home.
It adopted talks final week between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit in Alaska.
Engagement and dialogue
“It’s crucial that each one concerned proceed to remain actively engaged in what we need to see as an inclusive dialogue to maintain the essential momentum that was created to carry an instantaneous ceasefire and sustainable peace in Ukraine,” he stated.
Almost 4 years have handed since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine and greater than 13,000 civilians have been killed, UN human rights monitors within the nation have reported.
Mr. Dujarric was requested if the Secretary-Basic had any touch upon the opportunity of a gathering between the Russian and Ukrainian Presidents.
Whereas noting that there’s a lot dialogue round “potential dialogues or codecs, location”, he stated “it’s clearly essential that these events who’re straight concerned on this battle be capable to communicate to one another straight.”
Requested what function the UN may play on this course of, he stated the worldwide physique shall be “supportive and able to have interaction in a task that will or is probably not given to us based mostly on the rules that the Secretary-Basic has usually reiterated.”
When pressed about whether or not UN peacekeepers could possibly be deployed to Ukraine, Mr. Dujarric burdened that “any peacekeeping mission wherever must undergo the Security Council.”
