According to Turkey, the global grain crisis is coming to an end. Optimism was in order yesterday Wednesday, July 13 at the end of a working meeting in Istanbul between Russian, Ukrainian and Turkish experts and soldiers; UN emissaries also made the trip. According to the Turkish Defense Minister, Russia and Ukraine have made good progress on the file, enough to agree to new meetings around this affair next week. The signing of an agreement is not to be excluded…
The idea is to lift the blockade of Ukrainian ports, orchestrated by Moscow, so that grain deliveries can resume by transiting through the Black Sea. According to the head of the Turkish Defense, Hulusi Akar, the deliverance could arrive in the days to come…
“Really substantial progress” has been made, commented UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, RFI reported on Thursday. A “formal agreement” could be initialed very soon, he added. “Today in Istanbul we saw a momentous step, a step forward in ensuring the safe and secure export of Ukrainian food products across the Black Sea,” he continued. We have a glimmer of hope to alleviate human suffering and alleviate hunger in the world”, concluded the boss of the UN…
“The Ukrainian delegation informed me that progress has been made. We will agree on the details with the UN Secretary General in the coming days,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday evening.
It is said that the major technical obstacles have been removed by Moscow and kyiv, in particular the elements relating to the trajectories of the boats, their security, the ports of arrival. A “coordination center” for cereal routes should be created in Istanbul and all the players in the file will be active there. According to the Turkish minister, the Russian and Ukrainian envoys have agreed to meet again next week in Turkey. A meeting to “go over all the details”, with a view to a formal agreement.
It remains to be seen whether the developments in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia will not shatter this agreement in sight, which is called for by all humanity. Indeed when the Senegalese president and president of the African Union went to see his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to complain about the food crisis, the master of the Kremlin had hinted that he wanted a certain number of things in exchange. We are essentially talking in Turkey about the lifting of sanctions that are suffocating the Russian economy. It is obvious that if the Westerners do not let go of ballast in this affair Moscow will tighten the screws around Ukrainian cereals…
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