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Ukraine negotiating with Turkey, UN over grain export through ports: Zelensky

Ukraine negotiating with Turkey, UN over grain export through ports: Zelensky

TIL Desk/World/Kyiv/ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that his country is presently negotiating with Turkey and the UN regarding the export of grain through ports.

During a briefing in Kiev on Monday alongside visiting Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Anderson, Zelensky said that implementing this project “will be difficult in some places, but definitely possible”, because both Ukraine, as a grain exporting country, and farmers, who need exports to prepare for next year’s sowing, are interested in this, reports said. The President noted that 22 million tonnes of grain are currently blocked in Ukraine.

“We are currently negotiating with the Turkish side and the UN. Our representatives are responsible for the safety of grain exiting our ports. But it is a very important moment for someone to guarantee the safety of the ships of certain countries that will come to us to load food products other than Russia, which we do not trust,” he was quoted as saying.

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