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Russian Envoy Says Window Exists to Revive Black Sea Grain Deal; UN Role Unclear
Summary
The Russian representative to the United Nations said there is a window to revive the Black Sea grain agreement but that implementation of a separate memorandum on Russian agricultural exports stalled over sanctions, and he left the specific role of the United Nations in a potential revived deal undefined.
The Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations told the Security Council that U.N. efforts helped implement part of the Black Sea grain initiative but that the second element -- a Russia-U.N. memorandum on access for Russian agricultural products and fertilizers to international markets -- had not been fully implemented. "Miss Greenspan and secretary Guterres were acting in good faith, and they tried to do a lot," the representative said.
He described the initiative as…
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