Global News published this video item, entitled “Russia-Ukraine conflict: Turkey ready to facilitate UN plan to reopen grain export shipping routes” – below is their description.
Turkey hosted Russia’s foreign minister in its capital city Ankara on Wednesday to discuss a United Nations plan to reopen a shipping corridor in the Black Sea to allow for Ukrainian grain exports in order to avert a global famine.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said the UN plan to restart Ukrainian grain exports from Odesa and other Ukrainian ports along the sea corridor was “reasonable,” requiring more talks with Moscow and Kyiv to ensure ships would be safe.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the onus was on Ukraine to solve the problem of resuming grain shipments by de-mining its ports.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian ambassador to Turkey, Vasyl Bodnar, said in a virtual news conference from an undisclosed location in Turkey that “it is important for us that Turkey keeps mediating and conducting negotiations with both us and Russia … There can be no agreement without us.”
With Russia and Ukraine together accounting for nearly a third of the global wheat supply, the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war has driven up the price of grain, cooking oil, fertilizer and energy. The threat of a global food crisis grows as many countries count on Russia and Ukraine for more than half of their wheat imports, including some of the poorest.
Western countries have accused Russia of creating the risk of global famine by shutting Ukraine’s Black Sea ports. Moscow denies responsibility for the international food crisis, blaming Western sanctions.
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