(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is ready to meet with
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during his anticipated visit
to New York to attend UN events in April, Stephane Dujarric, a
spokesman for the UN chief, said on Wednesday, trend reports citing
tass .
"If he [Lavrov] comes to New York, and there's a meeting
requested, of course, the secretary-general will meet with him,"
the spokesman said at a news conference. "The secretary-general
<... meets with visiting ministers and heads of governments
and presidents. The secretary-general will continue to speak to
whomever he needs to speak to in order to do his job."
When asked about the position of the secretary-general about
Russia's upcoming presidency in the UN Security Council, the
spokesman said issues related to Security Council presidency are
outside the purview of the UN secretariat.
"The issue of membership in the intergovernmental bodies,
legislative bodies of this organization, the issue of the rules by
which they are governed and through which Member States preside
over which body for one time or another is solely in the hands of
the Member States," he said.
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