The Russian Foreign Ministry accuses the West of sabotaging the grain agreement concluded with Ukraine last year. Moscow will be prevented from fulfilling its obligations under the agreement, according to a statement released by the ministry. “We have to realize that the package of deals proposed by UN Secretary-General (Antonio) Guterres and signed in Istanbul on July 22, 2022 is not working.”
The ministry cites the ongoing blockade of the ammonia pipeline between Togliatti in Russia and the Ukrainian port of Odessa by Kiev as one of the reasons for the upset. According to the agreements, ammonia handling should have started at the same time as Ukrainian food exports. “But neither Ukrainians nor the West are the least concerned that 2.5 million tons of raw materials, enough to produce 7 million tons of fertilizer for 200 million people, were not exported to the world market because of such measures,” reads in the explanation. The agreed export of Russian fertilizers will also be blocked in ports in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and the Netherlands.
Source: Stern
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