UN Secretary-General Guterres Undermines UN Reputation by Accepting Putin's Invitation to BRICS Summit

The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is damaging the UN's reputation by accepting an invitation to the BRICS meeting in Kazan from Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

This is stated in a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.

‘The UN Secretary-General declined Ukraine's invitation to the first Global Peace Summit in Switzerland. Instead, he accepted an invitation to Kazan from war criminal Putin. This is a wrong choice that does not contribute to the cause of peace. It only damages the UN's reputation,’ the Foreign Ministry said in a post on social media platform X.

The BRICS summit in Kazan will be held on 22-24 October. Earlier, the British newspaper The Telegraph reported that Putin will meet with leaders of more than two dozen countries in Kazan this week. Among them are Chinese President Xi Jinping, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

BRICS - (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) - is an intergovernmental association, a geopolitical group of these five countries, founded on the initiative of Russia as an alternative to international associations led by the EU, the US and Western countries.

This year's BRICS summit is intended to create the illusion that Russia is not in international isolation and has influence in the international arena. Through the BRICS platform, Russia is promoting its own vision of the end of the full-scale war against Ukraine, which is aimed at full occupation and has nothing to do with justice.

As a reminder, Guterres recently declared Israel persona non grata for assisting Hamas terrorists in attacking Israel and financing and supporting terrorists. The so-called United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, UNRWA, was compromised by dozens of employees who assisted Hamas terrorist activities in Gaza and participated in the terrorist attack on Israel on 7 October 2023. Following an international investigation that confirmed the involvement of UNRWA staff in terrorist activities, they were demonstratively dismissed, and almost all countries stopped funding this UN wing.