The two officials touched on the security situation in Donbas amid the build-up of Russian troops.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he backs UN Secretary-General António Guterres's call for a ceasefire amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Zelensky discussed this during a recent phone call with Guterres, the press service of the President's Office reported.
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The two officials touched on the security situation in Donbas amid the build-up of Russian troops along the Ukrainian border and in the Russia-occupied parts of Ukraine.
"I would like to express my support once again for your last year's call for a ceasefire during the COVID-19 pandemic," he said.
Zelensky said Ukraine was one of the first to support this call and did everything possible to implement it starting from July 2020. The president also informed the Secretary-General about the establishment of the Center for Countering Disinformation in Ukraine, which should become an international hub to combat destructive information influence.
What is more, Zelensky stressed that the initiative of the Crimean Platform, which Ukraine will officially launch at the summit in August, will return the issue of Crimea to the international agenda, launch the process of ending the occupation of the peninsula and become a practical mechanism for protecting human rights in Crimea right now.
The president also noted the important practical role played by the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in monitoring the situation in Crimea and other temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
In 2020, UN Secretary-General Guterres called for an immediate comprehensive ceasefire in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.