UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will visit Moscow next week, UN spokesman Farhan Haq said on Tuesday.
He said that the program of Ban Ki-moon’s upcoming visit included meetings with the Russian leadership, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, other officials, as well as Patriarch Kirill.
Before his visit to Moscow, Ban Ki-moon will travel to Ukraine, where he will participate in an international conference on the 25th anniversary of the Chornobyl accident in Kyiv.
The spokesman said that "the secretary general has stressed the need to reassess the international emergency response framework and the nuclear safety regime."
"It is expected that the Kyiv summit will serve as a useful forum in this regard," Haq said.
In Kyiv, Ban Ki-moon is scheduled to meet with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and Foreign Minister Kostiantyn Hryschenko.
On April 20, the UN secretary general and the Ukrainian president are due to visit the Chornobyl exclusion zone and the Chornobyl nuclear power plant.
On April 13, the UN secretary general leaves for Doha to attend a meeting of the Libya Contact Group, which was established at a conference in London on March 31. Then he will visit Cairo, where he will chair another meeting on Libya, with the participation of the African Union and the Arab League.
Ban-Ki moon will also visit Hungary and the Czech Republic before his trip to Ukraine and Russia.
