Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov referred to as U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s proposals to revive the Black Sea Grain Initiative as “simply not realistic.”
“We don’t reject them. They’re simply not realistic,” Lavrov stated in his deal with to the General Debate of the 78th session of the U.N. General Assembly on Saturday.
“They cannot be implemented in and of themselves,” Lavrov instructed U.N. delegates in New York.
Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, which included a naval blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports.
The U.N. and Türkiye negotiated a world settlement to allow Ukrainian agricultural exports to succeed in world markets from three ports, however Moscow refused to increase the deal in July.
The unique deal included an settlement with Russia to facilitate the export of Russian meals and fertilizer merchandise. However, Moscow repeatedly complained that this a part of the deal was not honored, which Lavrov pressured once more in his speech on Saturday.
Just a few weeks in the past, Guterres was attempting to make concessions to revive the deal, suggesting in a letter to Lavrov that Moscow may very well be reconnected to the worldwide funds system SWIFT by making a subsidiary of the Russian Agricultural Bank for sure funds.
Guterres’ letter additionally talked about unfreezing frozen belongings of fertilizer corporations in Europe and permitting Russian ships to enter European ports.
Source: www.dailysabah.com