The US was eavesdropping on conversations between United Nations Secretary General António Guterres and other UN officials. This is stated in the article The Washington Postpublished April 17th.
The editors refer to leaked Pentagon documents.
Reports on Guterres contain personal conversations between the secretary general and aides about diplomatic meetings, media writes.
One of the documents says that after a visit to Kyiv and a meeting with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky on March 8 The secretary general told his press secretary, Stephane Dujarric, that he was “very furious.” He was outraged public ceremony marking International Women’s Day during his visit.
As Guterres aides said, he did not know that there will be an event at the Office of the President of Ukraine where medals will be awarded to “soldiers in uniform”. They noted that photographs were later published in which the UN Secretary General allegedly also congratulates the military.”one of the sides of the Russian-Ukrainian war”.
Guterres also told his assistant that he “tried not to smile” when he spoke about the territorial integrity of Ukraine during the briefing.
In addition, according to the UN Secretary General, he went to Ukraine “to help”, but the Ukrainians “are doing everything to eliminate [организацию]”.
Last week, Dujarric said in a media commentary that Guterres was “really unpleasantly surprised” that the awards ceremony was held without the approval of the Secretary General. It took place after a “productive” meeting in Kyiv, the spokesman said.
According to The Washington Post, other documents say that the United States believes that Guterres “undermines international campaigns to hold Russia accountable for the war,” although he publicly condemns the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Dujarric also said that Guterres “has been in politics for some time now” so he’s not surprised that his conversations were eavesdropped.
“Unfortunately, [утечка] makes it possible to distort such private conversations and make them public,” the spokesman for the UN Secretary General said.
Guterres visited Ukraine on March 8 . He came to discuss the “grain deal”. This was his third visit since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
During the visit, he stated that his organization was “clearly” stands for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine . “The position of the UN is absolutely clear: the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a violation of the UN Charter and international law. The sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of Ukraine must be preserved in accordance with the country’s internationally recognized borders. Our ultimate goal is also clear – a just world in accordance with the UN Charter, according to international law, according to resolutions of the General Assembly on the occasion of the anniversary of the outbreak of war “, Guterres said.
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