Politics, 25 September, 01:19
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Peskov: Putin ready for contacts with heads of permanent members of UN Security Council
Putin proposed a meeting with the leaders of the US, France, China and Britain in 2020. The Kremlin said it was still open to contacts, but the prospect of a summit was now unrealistic “for obvious reasons”
Dmitry Peskov (Photo: Yuri Smityuk / TASS)
Russian President Vladimir Putin is open to contacts with the heads of state of the permanent members of the UN Security Council (in addition to Russia, these are Great Britain, China, the United States, and France), “but for obvious reasons the prospect of such a meeting is currently unrealistic,” stated His press secretary Dmitry Peskov told Izvestia.
In 2020, Putin proposed holding a summit of the UN Security Council’s five countries. As the Kremlin explained, it was necessary to discuss international and regional conflicts and “stop the further dangerous growth of this critical mass.”
The proposal was supported by France, China and the UN leadership, and later other participants joined them, and holding the meeting in a video format was discussed. However, after the outbreak of military action in Ukraine, the Russian Foreign Ministry reportedthat the “Western trio”, that is, France, Britain and the United States, refused to work on its implementation.
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In February 2022, Peskov said that Putin’s initiative was “still on the table.”
In 2022, Putin called for changing the structure of the UN Security Council and introducing “global diversity” into it by including representatives from countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. According to Bloombergthe idea of reforming the Security Council will be contained in the communiqué of the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Summit, which will take place on September 25