Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will travel to Turkey with a military delegation on June 8 to discuss the creation of a potential maritime corridor for Ukrainian agricultural exports, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said, this Tuesday (31).
In a phone call with Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan on Monday, President Vladimir Putin said Russia was ready to facilitate grain exports from Ukrainian ports in coordination with Turkey.
Speaking to the state-run Anadolu news agency, Cavusoglu said work was still underway with the United Nations to reach an agreement on the creation of the Black Sea corridor, but that issues between Moscow and Kyiv remained. He also informed that the UN proposed the formation of a joint observation mechanism to monitor the sea route and that Turkey was open to the idea.
The minister also stated that Russia wanted some Western sanctions against its insurance sector to be lifted as this would affect ships that will participate in the potential transport network, while Ukraine did not want Russian warships to approach its docks in Odesa. .
Source: CNN Brasil
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