UN Vice-President for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths. File photoUN, 19 Apr UN Assistant Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths, who was scheduled to visit Turkey this week and then Russia to discuss humanitarian coordination on Ukraine, tweeted that he had contracted the coronavirus and canceled his trips. Earlier, Griffiths, having visited Moscow and Kyiv, said that he offered the parties to agree on a meeting on humanitarian issues. According to him, the Ukrainian authorities agreed to the UN proposal to create a humanitarian contact group with the Russian Federation to resolve humanitarian issues in Ukraine and on humanitarian truces. Now the UN is waiting for a response from Moscow. He said he plans to visit Turkey this week and then return to Moscow. «I'm sorry to say that I tested positive for COVID today. I'm following medical advice, canceled my trip and self-isolating at home,» Griffiths wrote.
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