Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that his country had made “new proposals” to reactivate Ukraine’s grain export agreement, suspended in July by Russia, during a hearing with his Russian counterpart.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that his country had made “new proposals” to reactivate Ukraine’s grain export agreement, suspended in July by Russia, during a hearing with his Russian counterpart.
“We have prepared, together with the United Nations, new proposals. (…) I believe that we will soon reach a solution that meets Turkey’s expectations,” Erdogan declared at a joint press conference with Vladimir Putin in Sochi, on the Russian coast. of the Black Sea.
In addition, Erdogan recalled that his country is against any “alternative proposal.”
According to the Turkish president, “the alternative proposals made so far do not offer a sustainable and safe model based on cooperation between the different parties” unlike the agreement on cereals, reached in the summer of 2022 through the mediation of Turkey and the ONU.
Putin said, for his part, that he is willing to reactivate that agreement, but on the condition that his demands are met.
We will do it when the agreements on the restrictions on exports of Russian agricultural products are applied,” the Russian president declared.
Putin also announced that they are about to close agreements with six African countries to send them free grain shipments.
Russia denounced that its exports of agricultural products are hampered by Western sanctions against Moscow, tightened after the Russian offensive in Ukraine in February 2022.
Ukraine, one of the world’s largest grain and oil exporters, is now trying to establish new routes to transport its grain.
