Aug. 18 () –
The Turkish Ministry of Defense reported this Thursday that 622,000 tons of cereals have headed to world markets from Ukrainian ports, after mediating an agreement between Russia and Ukraine with the United Nations to unblock this situation.
Since August 1, a total of 25 ships have set sail from Black Sea ports to export grain, while another 18 have docked at Ukrainian docks, according to Turkish authorities.
At the end of July, Turkey and the United Nations managed to broker an agreement between kyiv and Moscow to allow maritime traffic in that area in order to export all the grain that Ukraine kept in storage and on which a large part of the developing countries of Asia depend. Africa and the Middle East to fill their pantries.
The delivery of millions of tons of grain had been suspended since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24. kyiv, fearing further attacks, had mined the approaches to its ports on the Black Sea.
Now, before leaving for their destination, the ships must undergo the inspection of an international team whose operations center is in Istanbul, and which is expected to be visited this Saturday by the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres.
That visit closes Guterres’ travel plan for these days, who arrived in Ukraine on Wednesday to meet this Thursday in Lviv with the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski, and the Turkish, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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