Because the warfare in Ukraine rages, Guterres made the request in letters despatched to Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy, mentioned spokesman Stephane Dujarric.
The United Nations has been largely marginalized within the disaster because the Russian invasion started on February 24, partly as a result of the warfare has divided the UN Safety Council everlasting members: the USA, France, Britain, China and Russia.
China has refused to sentence the invasion, depicting Russia as a sufferer of Western efforts to weaken it.
With the letters he despatched on Tuesday, Guterres sought to spur dialogue to finish the warfare.
“At the moment of nice peril and consequence, he want to talk about pressing steps to result in peace in Ukraine,” Dujarric mentioned.
Guterres has had little contact with Zelenskyy because the warfare started, talking with him simply as soon as by phone, on March 26.
Putin has not taken Guterres’s telephone calls, or had any contact with him, because the UN chief said that the invasion violated the UN constitution.