Media: "Volodymyr Putin: the Russian Federation insists on the full implementation of the "grain agreement" so that the products are not sent to the rich countries. He also noted that a total of 45% of grain was delivered to European countries and only 3% to Africa."
Russia does not stop trying to undermine the Black Sea Grain Initiative. The specified statistics do not correspond to reality. The spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Oleh Nikolenko, announced this on Facebook.
On Monday, March 20, the Valsamitis vessel delivered a humanitarian cargo of 30 thousand tons of wheat to the Kenyan port of Mombasa. This is the fifth vessel to deliver Ukrainian grain to Africa as part of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy's Grain from Ukraine humanitarian program established to overcome the global food crisis, particularly in countries most affected by hunger.
Last night, the bulk carrier NEGMAR CICEK was moored in the port of Chornomorsk, and as of 08:00 on March 20, 7,000 tonnes of Ukrainian wheat were loaded on board.
This is the sixth vessel under the GrainFromUkraine program, which aims to provide Ukrainian wheat to countries suffering from hunger.
The Agreement liberalizing the carriage of freight by road has been extended until June 30, 2024. The document, which was signed in June 2022, has abolished the need for Ukrainian carriers to obtain appropriate permits for bilateral and transit transportation to the EU.
The relevant decision was reached during the first meeting of the Joint Committee of the Agreement on the Carriage of Freight by Road.
The agreement on the Grain Initiative has been extended for another 120 days. This was announced by Oleksandr Kubrakov, Deputy Prime Minister for Restoration of Ukraine and Minister for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development.
In February, only 71 vessels were inspected at the entrance to the ports of Odesa for loading Ukrainian agricultural products by the Joint Coordination Center in Istanbul (JCC). This is 17 vessels less than in January.
Such negative dynamics are a consequence of Russia's systemic destructive policy, which purposefully and unreasonably slows down ship inspections in Turkish territorial waters.
Ukraine and Latvia are working to further develop and strengthen trade and economic relations. During the meeting between Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal and Prime Minister of Latvia Krišjānis Kariņš, the parties agreed to continue the work of the Intergovernmental Ukrainian-Latvian Commission on Economic, Industrial, Scientific and Technical Cooperation. The ninth meeting of the Commission will be held in the near future.
As Denys Shmyhal noted at the joint briefing following the meeting, Ukraine was interested in implementing the logistics routes development project both within the Commission and at the high political level.
Ukraine imported 220,000 tonnes of fruits from Turkey in 2022, the largest figure among other countries supplying these products.
That's according to Bohdan Dukhnytskyi, a senior researcher at the Department of Agricultural Production Economics and International Integration of the National Research Center "Institute of Agrarian Economics".
Oleksandr Kubrakov, Deputy Prime Minister for Reconstruction of Ukraine and Minister for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development, held talks with Ramiro Lopes da Silva, Deputy Executive Director of the World Food Programme, and Matthew Hollingworth, WFP Representative and Country Director for Ukraine.
The meeting concerned the development of Ukraine's agricultural sector, plans to support small agricultural producers and projects to demine areas for growing grain crops.
Actively insuring war risks is a key issue for trade, investment, and recovery projects. Ukraine cannot wait until the war is over to return to business projects, so we are testing war risk insurance products from MIGA and other global players. This was emphasized by Yuliia Svyrydenko, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy of Ukraine, during a series of meetings with Jessika Roswall, Minister for EU Affairs of Sweden, and Johan Pehrson, Minister for Employment and Integration of Sweden.