Russia says UN vowed to lift obstacles to grain pact extension
The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, affirmed today that the obstacles to the extension of the cereals agreement remain due to the problems for the export of Russian cereals and fertilizers, but that the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, He promised his uprising. “Today, at the meeting, the Secretary General spoke about the promises, even on paper, that the US and the European Union conveyed to him. I would say that they seem to have good intentions,” Lavrov said at a press conference after his participation. at the G20 summit in Bali, where he met with Guterres. “If they are fulfilled, then the obstacles to the export of our fertilizers and grains will be removed. But the central point is not in the documents, but in how the promises will be implemented in practice,” he stressed.