United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday that he had spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin on expanding a recently reached deal that opened Ukraine’s Black Sea ports to grain exports.
Putin threatened to restrict the so-called Black Sea grain initiative after it was signed in July to ease a global food crisis. Ago first The ship sailed under the deal on August 1 more Carried more than 120 ships over 2.5 million tons of Agricultural products through the grain lane.
The Russian President accused Europe of take almost everything of Food being exported, although the United Nations said about 30% has passed on to lower- and lower-middle-income earners. countriesincluding two ships chartered by the World Food Program for horn of Africa and Yemen.
The third ship chartered by organization It is loaded to go to Djibouti while a fourth will arrive to go to Afghanistan.
Guterres said this while working call with Putin, leaders on Wednesday morning discussed expanding the scope of the agreement, including making it cover Russian fertilizer exports via same channel.
“In 2022, we have no shortage of foods, our problem of He told reporters at the United Nations headquarters in New York. “If we don’t normalize fertilizer markets, we will get problem in 2023.”
Guterres said that there are already Reports from West Africa and other parts of The world That this year planting crops less than in 2021, saying that this is ” reason Why do I strongly appeal to remove all obstacles to exports of Russian fertilizers that are not subject to sanctions, I repeat.”
The United States and its allies have imposed countless sanctions on Russia in revenge for its war against Ukraine now in His seventh month. But Washington has repeatedly stressed that its economic sanctions do not affect exports of Russian fertilizer.
