UN deputy responds to criticism over Ukraine conflict, says there'll be lessons learned
Mohammed, who previously served as Nigeria's minister of environment, also chairs the Global Crisis Response Group on Food, Energy and Finance.
Guterres traveled to Moscow this week to meet with President Vladimir Putin for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine.Russian is one of five nations that hold a veto power on the U.N's Security Council.The United Nations deputy secretary-general has told CNBC there will be "lessons learned" from the war in Ukraine.Amina Mohammed said the Russia-Ukraine crisis had been "a big shock to the system.
"Of course, there are things that we could have done to stop the war, but perhaps those are going to be lessons learned again, when the Security Council, the General Assembly leaders will look back and say, 'what could we have done, and make sure that we prevent the next war, the next pandemic'. These are all things that we are learning. I think history tells us that we're not very good learners when it comes to that," she said.
Mohammed, who previously served as Nigeria's minister of environment, also chairs the Global Crisis Response Group on Food, Energy and Finance, set up by U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres to look at the wider impact of the Ukraine war on the "world's most vulnerable."Guterres traveled to Moscow this week to meet with President Vladimir Putin for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine. He also met with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday in Kyiv.
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