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United Nations, April 27 Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed in principle to the involvement of the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the evacuation of civil from the Azovstal plant in Mariupol of Ukraine, said a UN spokesman.UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres held a tete-a-tete in Moscow with Putin, said Stephane Dujarric, Guterres' spokesman, in a release of the meeting, on Tuesday.Guterres reiterated the position of the UN on Ukraine, and they discussed the proposals for humanitarian assistance and evacuation of civil in relation to the situation in Mariupol, said the release."The President agreed, in principle, to the involvement of the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross in the evacuation of civil from the Azovstal plant in Mariupol," it added.Follow-on discussions will be held with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the Russian Defence Ministry, it said.Dujarric was with the Secretary-General in Moscow, Xinhua news agency reported.Before his talks with the Russian President, the UN chief held a working meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.At a press encounter after his meeting with Lavrov, Guterres said "it is my deep conviction that the sooner we end this war, the better for the people of Ukraine, for the people of the Russian Federation, and those far beyond."The UN chief added that he had proposed the establishment of a Humanitarian Contact Group, bringing together Russia, Ukraine and the UN, to look for opportunities for the opening of safe corridors, with local cessations of hostilities, and to guarantee that they are actually effective.On Mariupol, in particular, he proposed for coordinated work of the UN, the ICRC, and the Ukrainian and Russian forces to enable the safe evacuation of the civil who want to leave, both inside the Azovstal plant and in the city, in any direction they would choose, and to deliver the humanitarian aid required, said Guterres.The Ukraine conflict is sending shock waves around the world. The dramatic acceleration of the increases in the prices for food and energy is causing enormous suffering to hundreds of millions of the most vulnerable people worldwide. This comes on top of the shock of the continued Covid-19 pandemic and uneven access to resources for recovery, which particularly penalise developing countries around the world, he added.Guterres will be flying to Rzeszow of Poland, in transit to Ukraine, where he will meet with Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday.Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

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