UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday (April 24) that the risk of conflict between global powers was at an 'historic high' and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned the world was at a threshold 'possibly even more dangerous' than during the Cold War. Guterres, seated next to Lavrov in the UN Security Council, criticised Russia's invasion...
Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya speaks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on "Effective multilateralism through the defence of the principles of the Charter of the United Nations," at the UN headquarters in New York, US on April 24.
Lavrov chaired the council meeting because Russia holds the council's monthly rotating presidency for April. A string of Security Council members, including the United States, France and Britain, condemned Russia for its war on Ukraine.
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