Türkiye is resolute to ship grain and flour to African nations by way of the Black Sea grain hall, the nation’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan mentioned on Sunday.
“(Russian President Vladimir) Putin told me: ‘I’ll give you the grain for free, and you deliver it to poor African countries.’ And we say: ‘Okay. We’ll get this for free from you. Let’s turn it into flour in our factories, and send it to these poor African countries.’ We agreed,” Erdoğan on Saturday mentioned at an occasion within the southern Antalya province.
But, mentioned Erdoğan, 44% of Ukrainian grain is distributed to Europe.
“We are determined and we will make an effort to send these products to African countries from this grain corridor,” he added.
In July final 12 months, Türkiye, the UN, Russia, and Ukraine signed an settlement in Istanbul to renew grain exports from three Ukrainian Black Sea ports, which had been paused after the Russia-Ukraine conflict started in February 2022. A Joint Coordination Center with officers from the three nations and the UN was arrange in Istanbul to supervise the shipments.
The first ship carrying grain departed on Aug. 1, 2022 from the Ukrainian port of Odesa beneath the historic deal.
Türkiye, internationally praised for its distinctive mediator position between Ukraine and Russia, has repeatedly referred to as on Kyiv and Moscow to finish the conflict by way of negotiations.
Erdoğan mentioned Türkiye is doing its half to discover a answer to the Russia-Ukraine conflict versus those that “are helping arms dealers.”
“We are putting effort to achieve world peace. On the same day, we are talking both with Putin and (Ukrainian President Volodymyr) Zelenskyy. We are making an effort to see how we can reconcile them. We continue on our way by showing this sincerity because we know that the world can only rise on peace,” he added.
