UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will visit Poland, Ukraine and Russia this week, the UN News Centre reported.
“The Secretary General will be in Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 8, where he will meet with President Petro Poroshenko and other Ukrainian Government officials,” the news centre said referring to Ban’s spokesman Stephane Dujarric.
According to him, the secretary general will stop in Gdansk, Poland, on May 7, to attend the commemoration of the seventieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War there.
He will also meet with President Bronislaw Komorowski and other senior officials present at the commemoration.
Besides, Ban Ki-moon will travel to Moscow, the Russian Federation, for the celebration of Victory Day on May 9.
“While in Russia, he will meet with President Vladimir Putin, as well as a number of heads of delegations also attending the commemoration,” Dujarric said.
The secretary general is expected to back on in New York on May 10.
