Türkiye: US, EU not to obstruct Russian grain supplies to world markets

Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has said that Türkiye has seen clear statements from the United States and the European Union about the absence of further obstacles to the supply of Russian agricultural products to world markets.

"Although Russian agricultural products have not been sanctioned, there are obstacles in terms of logistics, ship insurance and payments. We have seen that there will be no such obstacles in clear statements from the US and the EU," Russia's Prime news agency quotes Cavusoglu as saying.

Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov reported that Moscow expects Ankara and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to get the United States and Europe to remove obstacles to the export of Russian grain and fertilisers to world markets.

Cavusoglu stressed that he had held talks with UN representatives in Ankara on the issue of bringing Russian products to the markets, Prime adds.

On July 22, two interrelated documents were signed in Istanbul to solve the problems of food and fertiliser supplies to world markets. The documents are in a single package. The first one - the memorandum - assumes the UN obligations to lift various restrictions on the export of Russian agricultural products and fertilisers to world markets. The second determines the algorithm for the export of Ukrainian agricultural products from the Black Sea ports controlled by Ukraine. However, as Moscow points out, in terms of exports from Russia, the deal is not working yet, the report says.