Ankara has started working to resume the grain deal and is ready for any initiative, including mediation, to resolve the Ukrainian conflict, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at a meeting with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in Washington on the sidelines of the NATO summit. The Turkish leader’s communications department announced this on July 11.
“At the meeting, President Erdogan said that Turkey continues its efforts to end the war between Ukraine and Russia by concluding a just peace and starting work to renew the Black Sea Grain Initiative. President Erdogan also said that Turkey is ready for any initiative, including mediation, to lay the foundation for peace.”the message said.
Erdogan also said after a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Astana on July 3 that Turkey hopes to return to the Black Sea grain deal on a new basis, by establishing a grain corridor to transport agricultural products through Turkey not to the West, but to food-insecure countries in Africa and other regions. He hopes the negotiations will lead to results and the Black Sea grain corridor will be reopened.
Recall that the grain deal signed in Istanbul on July 22, 2022 was suspended on July 17, 2023. The Russian president has repeatedly said that the West took most of the Ukrainian grain for Europe and that the main goal of the deal – transporting grain to particularly needy countries, including Africa – was never achieved.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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