“The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, He will come to Turkey on June 8 with a military delegation to discuss, among other things, the establishment of safe corridors for grain transport. This is the most important issue,” said the minister, the head of Turkish diplomacy, Mevlüt Cavusoglu.
His idea is “to create a runner observation center in Istanbul”.
The minister did not specify what form this center could take or the exact role that Turkey would play.
the russian president Vladimir Putin said Monday willing to work with Turkey on the free movement of goods in the Black Sea, including cereals from Ukraine, in a phone call with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
“Vladimir Putin highlighted Russia’s readiness to contribute to the unhindered maritime transit of goods, in coordination with Turkish partners. This also applies to grain exports from Ukrainian ports,” the Kremlin said in a statement.
Turkey is the main country on the shores of the Black Sea, on its southern shore, along with Russia in the north.
Maritime traffic has been complicated since the beginning of the conflict due to the blockade imposed by the Russian Navy on Ukrainian ports and the presence of sea mines, some of which have broken off and come close to the Turkish coast.
An ally of Ukraine, to which it supplies combat drones, Turkey has managed to maintain relations with Russia, on which it depends for its energy supply.
Ukraine says that the blockade of its ports by Russia prevents it from exporting 22,000 million tons of grain and that this is worsening a global food crisis to which the increase in the price of agricultural inputs due to the war also contributes.
The UN has said that African countries, among the most vulnerable in terms of food, imported from Ukraine and Russia 44% of the grains they consumed between 2018 and 2020.
Putin says the sanctions the West has imposed on Russia over the Ukraine invasion are making the situation more dire, and he has been willing to ease the problem if some of the penalties are lifted.
Source: Ambito
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