The UN believes that the BRICS summit in Kazan has become one of the key international meetings, recognizing that the work of its participants is vital for the global organization. This was announced at a briefing by Deputy Spokesman for the UN Secretary-General Farhan Haq, commenting on the trip of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to the BRICS summit in Kazan.
Deputy Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General Farhan Haq said that BRICS countries are “representing about half the world’s population” and the BRICS Summit has “great importance for the work of the United Nations.”
According to TASS, Haq said that it is “a standard practice” with the UN chief to attend summits of such large organizations, as the Group of Seven and the Group of Twenty.
Haq emphasized that, according to the UN, contacts with the Russian leadership contribute, among other things, to the movement toward ending the conflict in Ukraine. “I think any contact in itself contributes to moving forward on Ukraine. This is what we are trying to achieve,” the Secretary General’s representative further said. “I have nothing to say about specific results at this stage,” he added when asked to clarify what the results of the meeting between Putin and Guterres were concerning Ukraine.
