MOSCOW. May 31 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a number of international meetings on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), including with United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres on June 2, with whom they will discuss the situation in Syria, on the Korean peninsula and in Ukraine, and the topic of Russia's under-representation in various UN agencies, Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov said.
"The president will receive UN Secretary General Guterres. This will already be our president's second meeting with Guterres as UN Secretary General. They will discuss hot international problems: terrorism, Syria and, of course, Korea and, obviously the Ukrainian domestic crisis, as well as issues of UN reform," Ushakov told journalists on Wednesday.
"We are following these issues very closely because we have observed Russia's under-representation in various bodies of the UN system, and we will talk about it with the secretary general," Ushakov said.
Guterres himself has been calling for reform of the organization that he leads, he said.
Also on June 2, after a SPIEF plenary session, Putin will meet with Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern to discuss bilateral relations and international problems, Ushakov said.
On the same day Putin will have a brief meeting with Republika Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina) President Milorad Dodik, the presidential aide said. "There was a meeting with him on September 22, 2016, and now the plan is to discuss mainly the progress on agreements that were reached at the meeting. Basically, they will concern further development of economic, cultural and humanitarian relations," Ushakov said.
There may be other brief meetings on the sidelines of the event, he said.