White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the US is in favor of reinstating the Black Sea Grain Initiative, despite Russia’s willingness to change Ukraine’s food supply to the world market. It has been reported TASS.
He stressed that Russia has repeatedly said that it should return to the Black Sea Grain Initiative. The White House press secretary stressed that the American side wants to see this.
Therefore, he expressed Moscow’s readiness to change the Ukrainian grain supply.
Prior to that, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller during a press conference declarationUS Secretary of State Anthony Blinken discussed the grain agreement and security issues with Romanian Foreign Minister Luminica Odobescu.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres, in his speech at the UN Food Systems Summit held in Rome the previous day, called on Russia to return to the grain agreement, based on the ideas he outlined in a letter he wrote to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
As he reported RTThe USA will send 500 thousand dollars to “strengthen” Ukraine’s education system.
Last ship previously covered by grain agreement left Black Sea.