Kyiv: the trio United Nations The Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky are set to visit the Black Sea port of Odessa on Friday to discuss the grain shipment deal.
“At the invitation of President Volodymyr Zelensky, the Secretary-General will be in Lviv on Thursday to attend a trilateral meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Ukrainian leader,” UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Tuesday. ,
Guterres and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet Zelensky in Ukraine on Thursday, the spokesman said, adding that the trio will visit Odessa’s Black Sea port on Friday, where grain exports have resumed under a UN brokerage deal.
The first consignment of grain left Ukraine’s Odessa port on August 1.
Russia and Ukraine signed separate agreements in July with Turkey and the United Nations in Istanbul to resume shipments of grain to international markets via the Black Sea.
The agreement ended a wartime standoff that threatened food security in several countries and cleared the way for tons of Ukrainian grain exports.
The deal will enable Ukraine to export 22 million tonnes of grain and other agricultural products that are stuck in Black Sea ports due to the war.
Ukraine is regarded as the “bread basket of Europe”, supplying 10 percent of the world’s wheat, 12-17 percent of the world’s corn, and half the world’s sunflower oil. Twenty-five million tons of maize and wheat – the overall annual consumption of all less developed countries.
The three leaders will reportedly discuss a grain shipment deal and strikes at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine during their talks in Liv.
Dujarric said the three would also discuss “the need for a political solution to the conflict” between Russia and Ukraine.
On 22 July, Russia and Ukraine signed a landmark agreement with the United Nations and Turkey on the resumption of grain shipments to ease the global food crisis that existed due to the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. has come.
Russia has so far blocked sea access to those ports, meaning millions of tons of Ukrainian grain have not been exported to the many countries that depend on it.
In particular, Guterres will visit the Joint Coordination Center in Istanbul, made up of Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish and UN officials that oversee Ukraine’s Black Sea exports of grain and fertilizer.
On February 24, Russia launched a “special military operation” in Ukraine, which the West called a “war without cause”. As a result, Western countries have also imposed severe sanctions on Moscow.
“At the invitation of President Volodymyr Zelensky, the Secretary-General will be in Lviv on Thursday to attend a trilateral meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Ukrainian leader,” UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Tuesday. ,
Guterres and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet Zelensky in Ukraine on Thursday, the spokesman said, adding that the trio will visit Odessa’s Black Sea port on Friday, where grain exports have resumed under a UN brokerage deal.
The first consignment of grain left Ukraine’s Odessa port on August 1.
Russia and Ukraine signed separate agreements in July with Turkey and the United Nations in Istanbul to resume shipments of grain to international markets via the Black Sea.
The agreement ended a wartime standoff that threatened food security in several countries and cleared the way for tons of Ukrainian grain exports.
The deal will enable Ukraine to export 22 million tonnes of grain and other agricultural products that are stuck in Black Sea ports due to the war.
Ukraine is regarded as the “bread basket of Europe”, supplying 10 percent of the world’s wheat, 12-17 percent of the world’s corn, and half the world’s sunflower oil. Twenty-five million tons of maize and wheat – the overall annual consumption of all less developed countries.
The three leaders will reportedly discuss a grain shipment deal and strikes at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine during their talks in Liv.
Dujarric said the three would also discuss “the need for a political solution to the conflict” between Russia and Ukraine.
On 22 July, Russia and Ukraine signed a landmark agreement with the United Nations and Turkey on the resumption of grain shipments to ease the global food crisis that existed due to the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. has come.
Russia has so far blocked sea access to those ports, meaning millions of tons of Ukrainian grain have not been exported to the many countries that depend on it.
In particular, Guterres will visit the Joint Coordination Center in Istanbul, made up of Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish and UN officials that oversee Ukraine’s Black Sea exports of grain and fertilizer.
On February 24, Russia launched a “special military operation” in Ukraine, which the West called a “war without cause”. As a result, Western countries have also imposed severe sanctions on Moscow.