Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that the grain deal is not working. This was reported by TASS.
Lavrov argues that the grain deal is not working. He stressed that there is simply no prospect of extending the grain deal.
“How can you extend something that is not working?” he clarified.
The politician believes that half of the package, which was proposed by UN Secretary General António Guterres, “concerning Russian fertilizers and food, has not moved at all”. He said only the Ukrainian part of the deal was working.
“Only the Ukrainian part is working, and it is not working in the context suggested by the UN secretary-general, namely to meet the needs of the poorest countries, namely in a commercial sense. Less than 3 percent of what Ukraine shipped in the so-called grain part of the package went to developing countries that are on a special list of the UN World Food Programme, which are the poorest countries,” Lavrov said.
The Russian foreign minister said that the Kiev regime’s undermining of the Tolyatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline shows that there are many who want to destroy this deal and “preserve only the very commerce that is now observed in the Ukrainian part” of the agreement. At the same time, the politician believes that Western countries do not want to remove the restrictions that they themselves have created on the supply of Russian fertilisers to the needy countries of the global South. He stressed that let Western countries continue to pursue their commercial interests, while Russia will continue to supply grain through routes independent of the deal.
“Let them [in the West] deal with their commercial gain. <…> All those months when the Russian part of this grain and fertilizer deal was blocked, we continued supplying grain through routes that do not depend on the obstacles created by the West, to developing countries. And we will continue to do so. There is no doubt about that,” Lavrov concluded.
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