Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov did not answer the question of whether the grain deal was dead. It has been reported DEA News.
After the end of the first part of the UN Security Council meeting, the Russian minister went to meet with the organization’s Secretary General António Guterres.
A Reuters reporter asked Lavrov if the grain deal was over, but the Russian foreign minister only stood in front of the girl and commented on her dress.
“Nice dress,” he said.
Another journalist tried to ask about The Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was accused of spying in Russia, but Lavrov did not answer him.
Earlier it was learned that Lavrov was in a meeting with Guterres. declarationthat there has been no progress in the Western implementation of the Russian part of the grain agreement.
The previous day, the Russian Foreign Minister said that the letter delivered by the UN Secretary-General, containing the ideas on the grain agreement, should be examined, but Moscow “does not see The West’s desire to actually fulfill that.”
Gershkovic arrested On March 30 in Yekaterinburg. According to the FSB of Russia, on the instructions of the American side, it collected data on the activities of one of the enterprises in the Russian military-industrial complex and is accused of espionage.