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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sent a proposal to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov earlier this week to revive the Black Sea Grains Agreement, he told Reuters news agency. on August 31, a Russian diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The diplomat, who saw the letter, said that there was nothing new in the proposal, but "it summarized the previous ideas of the UN, which were not realized".
And on August 31, the Foreign Minister of Turkey, Hakan Fidan, during a visit to Moscow, said that the revival of this agreement was "critical" for food security.
" We emphasized its critical role for global food security and stability in the Black Sea ," said Fidan, during a joint press conference with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov.
Fidan was in Moscow to prepare an informal summit between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Russian Black Sea resort city of Sochi next week.
Russia withdrew last month from the UN-backed grain deal, which Turkey helped broker.
Both Ukraine and Russia have since made plans to begin shipping grain outside the agreement.
Turkey wants the warring parties to return to the agreement and use it as a basis for wider peace talks.
"I reiterated our belief that the revival of the initiative will restore stability ," said Fidan.
Moscow says the previous agreement placed indirect restrictions on its grain and fertilizer exports, limiting Russia's access to global payment systems and insurance.
Lavrov reiterated Russia's long-standing position that it will return to the deal once Russia's demands are met. He repeated Russia's assertion that Western economic sanctions were hampering Russian grain and fertilizer exports.
The deal helped Ukraine export more than 30 million tons of grain and food products last year.
This helped reduce global food prices that rose after the start of the war in Ukraine./ REL
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