(MENAFN- AzerNews) Moscow intends to deliver a shipment of Russian fertilizers to
Nigeria free of charge in the near future, Russian Foreign Minister
Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday at a press conference following his
visit to Burundi, Azernews reports, citing TASS.
"Last September, President [Vladimir] Putin announced that we
were ready to deliver 300,000 tons of our fertilizers, illegally
seized in EU ports, to African countries free of charge. Fully in
line with colonial practices and habits, the EU leadership blocked
this initiative. It took us 6 months to get at least the first
shipment of 20,000 tons to Malawi, and just recently another
shipment of a similar amount of fertilizer was delivered to Kenya.
The same shipment is scheduled to go to Nigeria soon," he said.
All of this comes at the cost of enormous efforts by the World
Food Program and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to "overcome
the openly Russophobic position of EU members who oppose any
initiatives that in one way or another will help developing
countries, if such assistance is provided by the Russian side."
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