Grain Ukraine, Lavrov: “Safe routes if Kiev mines ports”

Meeting today in Turkey between the Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu with his Russian counterpart Sergej Lavrov. Turkey, the Turkish minister underlined during the press conference in Ankara, considers Moscow’s request to lift sanctions on Russian agricultural exports to facilitate Ukrainian ones as “legitimate”. “If we are to open up the Ukrainian international market, we think lifting barriers to Russian exports is legitimate,” Cavusoglu said. Read also Moscow for its part is ready “in one way or another” to issue security guarantees for the export of Ukrainian wheat through the Black Sea ports, said Lavrov, according to Ria Novosti. “President Putin has already talked about it, he publicly stated that we guarantee the safety of these routes and we guarantee that when and if Ukraine demining and allows the withdrawal of ships from its ports, we will not take advantage of this situation in the interests of the ‘special military operation in progress “, added the head of Russian diplomacy. “These are the guarantees of the president of Russia, we are ready to formalize them in one way or another”, he concluded.