Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the content of UN Secretary General António Guterres’ letter gives the impression that the head of the global organisation is being used to promote unilateral approaches on the grain deal.
The minister said this during a press conference on the results of the G20 summit.
“Having read the content of this letter, one gets the impression that again, unfortunately, they are trying to use the Secretary-General to promote unilateral approaches,” he specified.
According to Lavrov, Western countries are trying to persuade Russia to reconnect Rosselkhozbank to SWIFT through a branch in Luxembourg.
“But this branch does not have a licence for banking operations, in general has already exhausted its possibilities there, it will be closed there,” he said.
Earlier Bloomberg reported that Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan at private meetings during the G20 summit in New Delhi asked world leaders “to help ensure that Russian food and fertiliser exports are insured in the London-based company Lloyd’s”, as well as to connect Moscow to the SWIFT system of international payments.
The G20 leaders also called for full compliance with the requirements of the grain deal, including ensuring supplies of Russian fertilisers.
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