UN Secretary-general Antonio Guterres will travel to Istanbul, Turkey on Thursday where he is scheduled to hold separate meetings with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım.
"Later today the Secretary-General will travel to Istanbul, Turkey and then to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Qatar and Egypt, as first past of his visits to the region," the UN said in a press release on Thursday.
In Saudi Arabia Guterres is scheduled to meet with the King, the Crown Prince and Deputy Crown Prince, as well as with senior officials. In UAE he will also hold meetings with the leaders of the country and deliver remarks at the 2017 World Government Summit.
Guterres is also due to meet leaders of Oman and Qatar, as well as President and member of the government of Egypt.
Secretary-General will then travel to Bonn to take part in the G20 Ministerial Meeting and Munich for the annual Security Conference, which will be held on February 17-19.
