Erdogan announces an agreement with Russia to facilitate the export of cereals to developing countries

Nov. 4 () –

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced that his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, has pledged that grain exported through the Black Sea will reach developing countries, especially in Africa, free of charge.

Erdogan has mediated for Russia to return to the grain export agreement from Ukraine, thanks to which 10 million tons have already left the latter country since July, according to United Nations estimates.

This week, the Turkish president spoke with his Russian counterparts, who promised to eliminate obstacles so that the grain reaches “countries like Djibouti, Somalia and Sudan”, as Erdogan explained in a business meeting collected by the Anatolia agency.

The president of Turkey hopes that the shipment of cereals and fertilizers to developing countries will also be one of the central themes of the G20 leaders’ summit to be held this month in Bali (Indonesia) and to which Putin is theoretically also invited .

However, Putin has already warned that he reserves the right to withdraw Russia from the agreement with Ukraine if he considers that this country violates the commitments in some way, mainly in the field of security. In this case, Moscow would continue to allow shipments to Turkey, according to the Russian president.