The United Nations hopes that the talks between China and the United States, scheduled to take place in Switzerland, will help the two countries move toward a more normalized trade relationship, a UN spokesperson said on Thursday.

"We just hope that these talks will help the United States and China to move towards a more normalized relationship regarding their trade relations. As the secretary general made clear, there can be no winners in a trade war," Farhan Haq, the deputy spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, said at a daily briefing.

The UN chief "is particularly worried about the situation in terms of how a global war could affect developing countries. So any effort to avoid that would be welcome," Haq added.

He Lifeng, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, will visit Switzerland from May 9 to 12.

During his visit to Switzerland, He, as the Chinese lead person for China-U.S. economic and trade affairs, will meet with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, the U.S. lead person for the talks, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced on Wednesday.