A pact that has allowed the safe Black Sea export of grain from Ukraine for the past year will expire at the end of Monday if Russia does not agree to extend the agreement brokered by the United Nations and Turkey
to improve its own grain and fertilizer exports have not been met. Russia also has complained that not enough grain has reached poor countries. The United Nations has argued that the arrangement has benefited those states by helping lower food prices more than 20% globally.on Thursday that Russia had already begun talking to Turkey about a plan to ensure that Russian wheat - possibly processed by Turkey - reaches countries in need regardless of the Black Sea deal's fate.
The U.N. Security Council is due to discuss Ukraine at a meeting on Monday chaired by British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly. Britain is president of the 15-member council for July. Several other European foreign ministers are also expected to attend the meeting. The United Nations has said its World Food Program has procured 80% of its wheat so far in 2023 from Ukraine - up from 50% in 2021 and 2022. The World Food Program has shipped about 725,000 metric tons of Ukrainian wheat to Afghanistan, Sudan, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Yemen to fight hunger.
The world body has said the deal so far has supplied grain to 45 countries in three continents - 46% to Asia, 40% to Western Europe, 12% to Africa and 1% to Eastern Europe.its participation at the end of October in response to a drone attack on its fleet in Crimea.in July 2022 under which U.N. officials agreed to help Russia get its food and fertilizer exports to foreign markets.
A key Russian demand has been for the Russian Agricultural Bank to be reconnected to the SWIFT international payments system. The bank was cut off from SWIFT by the European Union in June 2022 over Russia's invasion.
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