On Monday, following a Russian navy strike in the Crimean Peninsula, the US viewed Kiev’s demand that Moscow not utilise the grain export corridor for “collective blackmail” military reasons as a suspension of Moscow’s agreement to sell grain.
Ned Price, a spokesman for the foreign ministry, told reporters that “this appears to be collective punishment or collective blackmail.”
Price stated on Monday that the United Nations-mediated plan to ship grain over the Black Sea had “immediately detrimental impacts” on global food security and that food prices have increased as a result of the uncertainty surrounding the arrangement.
For his part, Ukrainian President Folodimir Zellinski confirmed, on Monday, during a phone call with United Nations Secretary -General Antonio Guterres that Ukraine is determined to “stay a guarantor of global food security” and continue its grain exports, after Russia suspended its implementation of the agreement after its ships in the Crimea were subjected to an attack With enlightening. ” I had a conversation with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
I have verified Ukraine’s adherence to the grain agreement, Zelinski stated on Twitter.
The United Nations Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, said on Monday that there were no ships sailing in the grain corridor in the Black Sea on the night of October 29, which is the day that Russia stated that its ships were attacked in the Gulf of Sevastopol in the Crimea, which led to a cessation of its work with an agreement Ukrainian grain export.
Josep Borrell, a representative of the European Union’s Foreign Affairs department, criticised Russia on Monday for suspending its participation in the black sea export agreement and asked Moscow to reverse its decision and resume implementation right once.
In a statement, Borrell claimed that Russia alone is to blame for the global food security problem that was sparked by its military campaign in Ukraine and what Borrell referred to as a “blockade” of the country’s ports.
The European diplomat believed that since the commencement of the military campaign Moscow launched in late February, “Moscow is using food and famine as a weapon.”
And on Saturday, Russia declared that it had formally informed the UN of its decision to stop taking part in the implementation of the grain export agreement from Ukraine. On Monday, Russia requested a meeting of the Security Council to discuss the attack that had prompted it to stop taking part in the agreement, which had been signed in Istanbul last July under the auspices of the UN.
Washington criticises Moscow’s stance on the grain accord in “Group Blast”
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