Russia’s First Vice-President of the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, said there is a 50% chance of extending the grain deal after 18 May. He said this in an interview he gave to the newspaper. “News”.
He noted that attention is focused on the first part of the agreement on Ukrainian grain exports.
But the latter is eclipsed by Russian exports of agricultural products and fertilizers. As a rule, it ends with the UN Secretary-General (Antonio Guterres) and his team showing a pile of letters, saying how much they have done, how many phone calls and visits they have made,” said Polyansky.
According to the diplomat, the US and Europe are doing nothing to keep the agreement running smoothly.
Former Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu declarationAt a press conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, he said that he agreed with his Russian counterpart that the conditions of the grain agreement aimed at ensuring the entry of Russian agricultural products and fertilizers to the world market were not met, and that the UN had agreed on this issue. and Türkiye is working to remove these obstacles.
Before that, Lavrov said that the Russian part of the grain deal in general. not fulfilledbarriers to its implementation become more difficult.