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Russia has not been included in the renewed composition of the Council of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), the UN agency dealing with shipping safety issues. Russian airlines have lost contracts with the UN: Russian companies will stop working with UN missions by April 2024.
In 2022, UN purchases from Russia, which has a decades-long procurement relationship with the UN, totaled $256.62 million, according to the report produced by the UN Office for Project Services (Unops), compared with $282.25 million in 2021. The UN confirmed the opening of an account in a Russian bank. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrived in Kazan, Russia, on an unannounced visit on the first day of the three-day BRICS summit.