Kremlin: Türkiye is ready to help revive cereal agreement
reports Mehr News Agency A telephone between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that Ankara has expressed its readiness to help revive the cereal agreement.
The Kremlin has announced that Erdogan “expresses his support for Russian-US talks and emphasized Ankara’s willingness to help facilitate the progress of the Black Sea deal.”
US and Russian officials agreed to revive the initiative last Monday after negotiations that lasted in Riyadh for four hours. Russia had called for the Russian Agricultural Bank and other institutions related to the sale of Russian food and fertilizer to the International Payment System (Swift). This was part of the main grain agreement.
US President Donald Trump confirmed last week that his government is investigating some of Moscow’s sanctions.
Kremlin after expert consultations with Washington said in a statement that the parties agree with the agreement between the Russian and US presidents, to implement the Black Sea initiative, including ensuring safe shipment, non-use of coercion, and not using coercion. Come.
The Black Sea Agreement, or the Black Sea Initiative, was initially reached by UN and Turkish mediation in July to ensure a trusted way to transfer Ukraine agricultural exports to world markets in exchange for lifting Western sanctions against Russian grain and fertilizer trade. Moscow came out of the year, referring to the West’s failure to fulfill its obligations in the agreement.
