UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) — Incoming UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres plans to visit Moscow on November 24-25 to meet with Russian officials, Guterres's spokeswoman and senior adviser Melissa Fleming said Wednesday.
"He is visiting most of the [UN] Security Council members' capitals. He's meeting with the heads of states. He was in the UK, in France this week, and his next visit is to Russia next week," Fleming told RIA Novosti.
Guterres, who is Portugal's former prime minister, is set to assume office on January 1, 2017. During the UN election, Guterres got unanimous support from the UN Security Council (UNSC) members.
The UN secretary-general-designate, who also served as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees for some 10 years, had visited Moscow earlier this year as a candidate for the top UN post.
In October, Russia's UN Envoy Vitaly Churkin said that the appointment of Guterres was the biggest success of the UNSC in the last five years.
