“The Russian side has not received any information about a meeting,” Smolenskaya Square said, commenting on a Reuters publication that said such a meeting could take place as early as May 3 and that all parties should attend. At the same time, the media referred to an anonymous Ukrainian source.
Recall that on July 22, 2022, a package of documents on the supply of food and fertilizers to the international market was signed in Istanbul. We are talking about two documents: a grain agreement that allowed the export of grain from Ukraine and a memorandum of understanding between the UN and the Russian Federation, which was supposed to facilitate the supply of Russian agricultural products to world markets. The agreements were concluded for 120 days, in November they were extended for the same period, and in March for another 60 days – until May 18. Moscow has repeatedly stressed that only the first part of the Black Sea Initiative is being implemented, but nothing is being done to reconnect Rosselkhozbank to the SWIFT system, lift restrictions on insurance and reinsurance and lift denial of access to ports.
Many questions are also raised about where Ukrainian grain is supplied. “Less than three percent of the total grain volume that left Ukrainian ports ended up in poor countries that are on the corresponding WFP list (Ethiopia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Sudan and Somalia). All the rest (more than 80 percent) went to countries with high or above-average income,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told a UN Security Council meeting in New York this week. last.
He also drew attention to the fact that “focusing entirely on the Ukrainian part of the agreement, our colleagues, mainly in the UN, forget that initially Secretary General António Guterres proposed a ‘package’ inextricably linked. And Russia agreed to sign both documents, since the memorandum contains “the obligation of the General Secretary and his staff to do everything possible to remove obstacles to the export of Russian fertilizers and grain.” admitted that UN representatives are trying to negotiate with countries that have announced illegal unilateral sanctions against the Russian Federation, but to no avail.
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