The UN and Turkey are starting negotiations with Moscow to resume the agreement it broke on Saturday after its attack on its fleet in Sevastopol.
The international community has closed ranks with a call on Russia to immediately return to the agreement that allowed grain exports from Ukrainian ports until Saturday. The breach of the pact, in retaliation by Moscow after its fleet’s attack on the Sevastopol base, prevented a ship loaded with grain from leaving for Ethiopia the previous day. Aware of the severe food crisis that the Kremlin’s decision will unleash, especially in the most disadvantaged countries, the UN and Turkey began negotiations on Sunday to find a way out.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, who was due to leave for Algeria to join the Arab League summit, has decided to postpone the trip to focus his efforts on unblocking the deal with the regime by Vladimir Putin. The spokesman for the head of the international organization, Stéphane Dujarric, said in a statement on Sunday that Guterres is “deeply concerned” about the situation and maintains “intensive contacts” to mediate Russia’s return to the pact signed in July between Kiev and Moscow. of Turkey and the UN.
Dujarric further noted that the same commitment also seeks “the renewal and full implementation of the initiative to facilitate Ukrainian food and fertilizer exports, as well as removing existing barriers to Russian food and fertilizer exports.”
Ankara authorities have also launched a diplomatic offensive, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar confirmed on Twitter. “Crisis can be solved with good will and dialogue,” he added. Also, on condition of anonymity, a government source confirmed to Bloomberg that talks with the concerned parties will continue next Monday. “There are reasons for optimism,” he slipped.
Meanwhile, the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, confirmed this Sunday that he and Guterres had discussed coordinating actions to maintain the flow of exports from Ukraine and urged Russia to reverse its decision. to spin.
The Spanish government took a position along the same lines as the head of European diplomacy. Foreign, EU and Cooperation Minister José Manuel Albares urged Vladimir Putin’s regime to “reverse its decision” to cancel the agreement, which is “needed to protect the food of thousands of people in the world to guarantee”. The head of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, described Moscow’s decision as “deplorable” and accused the country of “keeping the food war front open” and “causing hunger and insecurity in the less developed countries.” .
For its part, the Russian Defense Ministry has published an analysis of the remains of the drones that attacked the Crimean port of Sevastopol the day before, the results of which confirmed Moscow’s initial conclusions: they were launched from the Kiev-controlled area. , supervised by the British Army and contained Canadian-made components.
The Russian government explained in its note that the drones departed from “the Odessa region” and also made “part of their journey along the grain export corridor.” In addition, they add that the launch was apparently done “from a civilian ship carrying agricultural products from Ukrainian ports”.
Source: La Verdad
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