The Security Council in a brief text, drafted by Norway and Mexico, expressed deep concern regarding the maintenance of peace and security of Ukraine, adding that “all Member States have undertaken, under the Charter of the United Nations, the obligation to settle their international disputes by peaceful means.”
The presidential statement, known as a PRST, also expressed “strong support for the efforts of the Secretary-General in the search for a peaceful solution,” requesting UN chief Antonio Guterres brief the council again “in due course.”
Guterres met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv last week.
His visits paved the way for joint United Nations and International Committee of the Red Cross operations that have evacuated some 500 civilians from Ukraine’s port city of Mariupol and the besieged Azovstal steel plant in the past week. —Agencies
