Ukraine’s agriculture minister mentioned Kyiv would intention to safe the re-opening of meals and grain transit through Poland as a “first step” at talks in Warsaw on Monday, after Poland and Hungary introduced bans on some imports from Ukraine.
Some Black Sea ports had been blocked after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine final 12 months and huge portions of Ukrainian grain – which is cheaper than that produced within the European Union – ended up staying in Central European nations due to logistical bottlenecks. This hit costs and gross sales for native farmers.
Ukraine often exports most of its agricultural items, particularly grain, through its Black Sea ports which had been unblocked final July in keeping with an settlement between Ukraine, Turkey, Russia and the United Nations.
“The first step, in our opinion, should be the opening of transit, because it is quite important and it is the thing that should be done unconditionally and after that we will talk about other things,” Agriculture Minister Mykola Solsky mentioned.
“In terms of figures, everything that crossed the Polish border (from Ukraine)… is about 10% of everything (of food goods) Ukraine exported,” he mentioned in feedback revealed on the Telegram messaging app by the Agriculture Ministry.
He added that deliveries to Hungary accounted for round 6% of Ukraine’s farm exports.
Solsky mentioned that Ukrainian meals transit through Hungary and Slovakia was unaffected.
He additionally mentioned there could be further talks this week in Romania on Wednesday, and in Slovakia on Thursday.
Solsky instructed Reuters individually that the Warsaw talks had been anticipated to start out round noon.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
