Russia Does Not Like to Keep It's Word, Now They Tell UN They Want to Quit The Grain Deal

First Grain shipment out of Ukraine

Well, you know most informed people know Russia does not care how many people die of hunger around the world since dependent on grain from Ukraine. Putin went for the deal to let the ships with grain pass through (brokered by Turkey, Russia, and the UN) because he figure he could steal whatever he wanted from the grain ships so it was worth it for him. But since this is been discovered and now the Ukraine Army, and Navy have put a stop to it, Russia wants to get out of the game take all the cards, and go home. Some people never grow up. People that only want for themselves and do not care about their neighbors or people outside their family. If indeed there are aliens living among us or one day a colony decides to come to Earth I wonder what Russia will do? Nuke them! I don't know how some men get the title of human when they are so far from it. 

Adam Gonzalez, Publisher, Writer 

                                                              { tut gut mein sohn}

 

Exclusive: Russia is prepared to quit Black Sea grains deal, writes to UN with demands

By Emma Farge

(Interview of Gennady Gatilov in Geneva

In an interview with Reuters in Geneva, Switzerland,  REUTERS/Pierre Albouy)

GENEVA, (Reuters) - Moscow has submitted concerns to the United Nations about an agreement on Black Sea grain exports, and is prepared to reject renewing the deal next month unless its demands are addressed, Russia's Geneva U.N. ambassador told Reuters on Thursday.

The agreement, brokered by the United Nations and Turkey in July, paved the way for Ukraine to resume grain exports from Black Sea ports that had been shut since Russia invaded. Moscow won guarantees for its own grain and fertilizer exports. 

 

The agreement helped stave off a global food crisis: Russia and Ukraine are two of the world's biggest grain exporters and Russia is the number one fertilizer exporter. But Moscow has repeatedly complained about its implementation, arguing it still faces difficulty selling fertilizer and food.

In an interview with Reuters, Gennady Gatilov, Russia's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, said Moscow had delivered a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday setting out a list of complaints. U.N. officials are due in Moscow on Sunday to discuss the renewal of the agreement.

 

"If we see nothing is happening on the Russian side of the deal – export of Russian grains and fertilizers – then excuse us, we will have to look at it in a different way," he said.

Asked if Russia might withhold support for the grains deal's renewal over the concerns, he said: "There is a possibility...We are not against deliveries of grains but this deal should be equal, it should be fair and fairly implemented by all sides." 

U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said: "We remain in constant touch with Russian officials, as well as with officials from the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States in order to remove the last obstacles to facilitate the export of Russian grain and fertilizer."

He said Guterres was committed to those efforts and to having an extended and expanded Black Sea Grain Initiative.

Gatilov, a career diplomat who was deputy minister of foreign affairs before taking up the Geneva post, said that he saw fading prospects for a negotiated settlement to the nearly eight-month war in Ukraine. He cited what he called "terrorist acts" such as an explosion on a bridge to Crimea.

"All this makes it more difficult to reach a political solution," he said.

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Asked about the prospect of a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden, Gatilov said it was not feasible given the levels of U.S. military support for Ukraine. "It makes the U.S. a part of the conflict," he said.

However, he was more upbeat on other negotiated outcomes such as aid access and a further prisoner swap, calling these "a possibility". He said a delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross had met with Russia's defense ministry in Moscow recently about a possible swap, without giving further details. The ICRC did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Reporting by Emma Farge Editing by Peter Graff

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