The Daily Populous Thursday October 24th, 2024 day edition
Authored by euronews.com and submitted by MoonPieVishal

The decision by the Portuguese UN Secretary General António Guterres to attend a summit hosted by Vladimir Putin has met with criticism from Ukraine and its allies.

The UN Secretary General has arrived in Kazan, Russia, to attend BRICS summit where China and Iran are present.

His decision to attend the meeting hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin has met with criticism from Ukraine and its allies, given the ongoing war following the 2022 full-scale invasion.

“This is a wrong choice that does not advance the cause of peace. It only damages the UN's reputation,” the Kyiv foreign affairs ministry posted on X on Monday based on reports of his attendance, noting that he had declined to attend a peace summit in Switzerland to which Ukraine invited him earlier this year.

The foreign minister of Lithuania has also branded Guterres’ involvement as “unacceptable”.

The BRICS Summit – named after original members Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – has this year expanded to include Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and is meeting in Kazan, Russia over several days this week.

According to Stewart Patrick, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Guterres may be attempting to forge a peace deal, and shares some of the BRICS’ concerns over the representativeness of international institutions.

But it would “likely not be well received in Western capitals, because it might be seen as legitimating Vladimir Putin's Policies,” Patrick told Euronews in an interview on Tuesday.

Spokespeople for Guterres did not respond to a request for comment.

takeabow11 on October 24th, 2024 at 10:07 UTC »

If there is no dialogue allowed, ever, at the highest levels, then we may as well declare full war now as that's the only possible outcome

ANerd22 on October 24th, 2024 at 04:46 UTC »

ITT: once again nobody here seems to understand what the UN actually is

Smartyunderpants on October 24th, 2024 at 03:57 UTC »

Why wouldn’t the UN general secretary engage with the world ?