UNITED NATIONS: The European Commission is helping the United Nations and Türkiye try to extend a deal allowing the Black Sea export of Ukraine grain and is open to 'explore all solutions', a European Union spokesperson said on Thursday (Jul 13), ahead of the deal's possible expiration on Monday. The
UNITED NATIONS: The European Commission is helping the United Nations and Türkiye try to extend a deal allowing the Black Sea export of Ukraine grain and is open to"explore all solutions", a European Union spokesperson said on Thursday , ahead of the deal's possible expiration on Monday.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres proposed in a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday that Moscow allow the Black Sea grain deal to continue for several months to give the EU time to connect a Rosselkhozbank subsidiary to SWIFT, two of those sources familiar with discussions told Reuters.
"We can suspend our participation in the deal, and if everyone once again says that all the promises made to us will be fulfilled, then let them fulfil this promise. We will immediately rejoin this deal," Putin said. "We are assisting the talks led by the UN and Türkiye as required," the spokesperson said."We are of course open to explore all solutions that contribute to our objective, whilst continuing to ensure that Russia's ability to wage war in Ukraine is hampered as much as possible.""BALL IN PUTIN'S COURT"
Russia has threatened to ditch the Black Sea grain deal because several demands to dispatch its own grain and fertiliser abroad have not been met. The last ship traveling under the Black Sea agreement is currently loading its cargo at the Ukrainian port of Odesa ahead of the Monday deadline. As a workaround to the lack of access to SWIFT, UN officials have got US bank JPMorgan Chase & Co to start processing some Russian grain export payments with reassurances from the US government.
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