The Ukrainian overseas minister accused Russia of “putting the global food security at risk” after Moscow withdrew from the Black Sea grain deal that allowed Ukraine to export tens of thousands and thousands of tons of grains over the previous 12 months.
“It is an irresponsible move,” Dmytro Kuleba informed reporters on the UN headquarters forward of a Security Council assembly on Ukraine.
“Russia is also doing it while increasing its own exports to global markets,” Kuleba stated.
Accusing Russia of placing many countries in Asia and Africa liable to rising meals costs and starvation, he stated: “This must stop now. We all have a headache. We have to solve another created by Russia.”
He stated that Russia doesn’t assure the protection of any ship that will attempt to carry Ukrainian cereals from Ukrainian ports to the Joint Coordination Centre in Istanbul or the opposite means round after Moscow pulled out of the deal.
“We will conduct consultations with the International Maritime Organization,” he stated.
Asked if the deal was lifeless and there might be extra negotiation as steered by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, he replied: “If Türkiye wants to have another round of conversation with Russia, about the commitment of Russia to the deal it signed with Türkiye, we are fine with that.”
Russia refused to resume the grain deal past July 17, with the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov saying: “Unfortunately, the part relating to Russia in this Black Sea agreement has not been implemented so far.”
Russia was searching for the removing of obstacles to its fertilizer exports so as to agree to a different extension of the grain deal together with the inclusion of its state-owned Russian Agricultural Bank within the SWIFT worldwide fee system.
A 12 months in the past, 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 warfare started that February.
The deal has been renewed a number of occasions since then, and it was prolonged for one more two months on May 18.
The deal ensured the protected passage of over 32 million metric tons of meals commodities from Ukrainian ports, in line with the UN.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
