UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres met PM Modi on Sunday.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has discussed Kashmir with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and told him that all the sides "should avoid escalation", according to UN chief's spokesperson.

Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters on Monday that at their meeting on Sunday in Biarritz, France, on the sidelines of the G7 summit, "the issue of Kashmir did come up".

"For the Secretary-General's part, he reiterated the message that he has been saying publicly, and that's basically a need for all parties to avoid any sort of escalation," he said.

Mr Guterres has convened an international summit on climate change at the UN, which PM Modi is scheduled to attend, and the main focus of their meeting was the upcoming summit.

Mr Dujarric said that they alsohad "a long and fruitful discussion" on climate change issues.

After their meeting, PM Modi tweeted that they had an "excellent meeting" at which they "had extensive deliberations on key issues, most notably ways to strengthen the efforts to mitigate climate change".

Excellent meeting with the Secretary General of @UN, Mr. @antonioguterres. We had extensive deliberations on key issues, most notably ways to strengthen the efforts to mitigate climate change. pic.twitter.com/S5P6MmJT4A — Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) August 25, 2019

Mr Guterres presented PM Modi in October 2018 with the UN's Champions of Earth award for his leadership in combating climate change.

On August 8, in the first statement after India revoked Jammu and Kashmir's special status, Mr Dujarric said that Mr Guterres also "recalls the 1972 Agreement on bilateral relations between India and