What known about grain deal in Ukraine
2022.12.15 08:58
What known about grain deal in Ukraine
Budrigannews.com – Martin Griffiths, the head of aid at the United Nations, said on Thursday that it was unlikely that the Black Sea grain deal would soon be expanded to include additional Ukrainian ports or shorten inspection times.
Ukraine, a major global grain exporter, has called for an expansion of the deal with Moscow that allows food products to be shipped from three of its Black Sea ports despite Russia’s invasion. The deal was mediated by Turkey and the United Nations.
In an interview with Reuters in the capital of Ukraine, the U.N. under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator stated, “I don’t see that happening in the next, near term.”
“I think it would be wonderful if it could be expanded; the more grain that enters the world, the clearer it will be from both our and the world’s perspectives. However, I do not believe that is immediately probable.”
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This week, Griffiths went to Ukraine to visit the southern cities of Mykolaiv and Kherson, which were liberated just recently. During the winter, Ukraine is experiencing power outages caused by Russian air strikes on critical infrastructure.
On November 30, the official stated that a deal was “close” to agreeing on a resumption of Russian ammonia exports via Ukraine. He stated that he was only there to review the humanitarian aid program and that he was not in Ukraine to act as a mediator.
An existing pipeline would be used to pump fertilizer-making ammonia to the Black Sea. When Russia invaded this year, the pipeline was shut down.
Griffiths stated on Thursday that work on that agreement was still ongoing and that he did not know when it would be finalized.
He stated, “We continue to… obviously want it because fertilizer is almost as important as grain for export to the global south right now.” Therefore, we are still attempting. When it will happen, I have no idea.”
Russian and Ukrainian delegates have examined the chance of connecting a detainee trade that would deliver an enormous number of detainees on both side to the resumption of smelling salts sends out.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Rebeca Grynspan, expressed optimism earlier on Thursday regarding the likelihood of a breakthrough in negotiations.
Griffiths stated that since the beginning of the war, international humanitarian aid agencies had reached just under 14 million people with assistance at a news conference earlier on Thursday with the prime minister of Ukraine.
