According to the office of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, Russia, Ukraine, and Turkey will come together on Friday to sign a plan put up by the UN to allow grain exports from Ukraine's besieged Black Sea ports.
The event will take place at the Dolmabahce Palace offices at 13:30 GMT, and will be attended by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who previously declared that he would be traveling to Istanbul on Thursday, according to the release.Erdogan spokesman Ibrahim Kalin tweeted that the UN Secretary General, Mr. Guterres, the Ukrainian and Russian delegations, as well as President Erdoan, would be present for the signing of the crucial grain export deal in Istanbul tomorrow.
Both Russia and Ukraine are significant global exporters of wheat, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused food prices to skyrocket.
In an effort to alleviate the world food crisis, Guterres has been working on a plan that would allow Ukraine to export millions of tonnes of grain stocks that have been trapped in Black Sea ports because of the fighting. The amount of grain blocked in Ukraine is at least 22 million tonnes.The parties met last week in Istanbul and came to a provisional agreement on the proposal, which calls for shared controls of ships as they enter and exit Black Sea ports as well as a mechanism to guarantee the security of the transfer routes, according to Turkish authorities.In Istanbul, a center for export shipping coordination would be set up, with representatives from the UN, Turkey, Russia, and Ukraine participating.Farhan Haq, the deputy spokesperson for the UN, stated that Guterres' trip to Istanbul signals that "we're moving ahead" on the agreement. Rebeca Grynspan, the chair of the UN Conference on Trade and Development, was in charge of the Russian side of the deal while Martin Griffiths, the UN humanitarian chief, was in charge of the Ukraine side. Both of them were already in Istanbul.
Haq added, "We've been working around the clock, with intense meetings with many moving components.
According to Haq, if a deal is achieved "we can potentially rescue hundreds of thousands, potentially millions of people from having food priced out of their reach" in light of the escalating global food crisis.The United States praised the agreement and stated that it was concentrating on keeping Russia responsible for carrying it through.
The spokesperson for the US Department of State, Ned Price, stated, "We shouldn't have been in this position in the first place. The Russian Federation "deliberately decided to weaponize food in this way."Late on Thursday, the Ukrainian foreign ministry said that a new round of negotiations to open the country's grain exports will be overseen by the UN and held in Turkey on Friday.
According to Oleg Nikolenko, a spokesman for Ukraine's foreign ministry, "In short, a document may be signed which will bind the sides to (guarantee) safe running of export channels in the Black sea."
The Turkish announcement was not addressed by the Kremlin spokeswoman. It was a query "for the [Russian] military," according to Dmitry Peskov.For the past two months, the UN and Turkey have been attempting to arrange what Guterres referred to as a "package" solution, which would allow Russia to transport grain and fertilizer while also allowing Ukraine to resume its Black Sea grain exports.
According to Taras Vysotskiy, the deputy minister of agriculture for Ukraine, exports might resume swiftly.
"The majority of the infrastructure of the wider Odesa ports — there are three — remains, so it will be several weeks before there are enough security assurances," he said in an interview with Ukrainian television.The stopped grain shipments have been attributed to rivalry between Russian and Ukrainian officials.
Moscow charged Ukraine with failing to clear the ports of naval mines to ensure secure shipping. Additionally, Russia has defended its right to examine the inbound ships for weaponry.
Ukraine has asked for international assurances that the Kremlin won't assault Odesa, a vital Black Sea port for Ukraine, using the safe corridors. Additionally, Russia has been charged by the Ukrainian government with taking grain from its eastern areas and selling it, as well as shelling Ukrainian fields on purpose to set them on fire.
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