Russia remains dissatisfied with progress in exporting Russian agricultural products after the meeting held on Friday in Moscow with the general secretary of the Conference of the UN on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Rebeca Grynspan, the Foreign Ministry said this Saturday.
“We are still not satisfied with the progress”said the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Sergei Vershinin, in statements to the RT television network.
For Russia it is “very important” that the part of the agreement related to the export of Russian grain and fertilizers be fulfilled.
Vershinin confirmed that a meeting at the deputy minister level will soon take place on the grain agreement between Russia, Ukraine, the UN and Turkey, which expires on the 18th.
Also Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said today that the situation with the export of Russian products under the grain agreement is not improving.
Russia denounces that its exports, the facilitation of which was agreed with the United Nations in parallel to the agreement to release Ukrainian grain, are facing difficulties, above all due to the collateral effects of the sanctions that the West has imposed on it for its aggression against Ukraine.
The Kremlin demands the reconnection of the agricultural bank Rosseljozbank to the SWIFT financial communications system, the resumption of supplies of agricultural machinery, as well as spare parts and services for it, and the removal of restrictions on insurance and free access to ports.
It also calls for the operation of the Togliatti-Odesa pipeline, paralyzed since the beginning of the Russian military campaign in Ukraine, and the unblocking of foreign accounts and assets of Russian companies linked to the production and transport of food and fertilizers .
Ukraine in turn accuses Russia of putting all kinds of obstacles to the passage of ships with Ukrainian grain.
The agreement expires on the 18th and Russia has threatened not to prolong it if its problems are not resolved.
The head of the United Nations, António Guterres, has sent Moscow and the rest of the capitals a written proposal to expand and extend the pact, but so far he has not received a response from the Kremlin.
Peskov confirmed today that Russian President Vladimir Putin has not yet responded to Guterres.
Source: EFE
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