War in Ukraine: Zelenskyy, Erdogan and Guterres meet Thursday in Lviv

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will travel to Ukraine on Thursday, August 18, where he will attend a meeting with the Ukrainian and Turkish presidents, specifically to discuss grain exports from Ukrainian ports, his door said on Tuesday , August 16 with .

“At the invitation of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Secretary General will be in Lviv on Thursday to take part in a trilateral meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Ukrainian leader,” Stéphane Dujarric said during a press conference, specifying that Antonio Guterres would do so Then travel to Odessa, and then to Turkey. The meeting will “review” the implementation of the international agreement signed in Istanbul in July to allow grain exports from Ukraine, an agreement “of which Turkey is a key element,” he added.

“A number of issues will be addressed in general, such as the need for a political solution to the conflict. I have no doubts (of the fact) that the issue of the (Zaporizhia) nuclear power plant and others will also be discussed,” said the spokesman, specifying that bilateral talks between the President of Ukraine and the Secretary General should also take place.