(MENAFN- AzerNews) Turkiye is not giving up on its efforts to resume the Black Sea
Grain Initiative and has regular communication on this issue with
the UN, Russia and Ukraine, a local diplomatic source said on
Monday, Azernews reports, citing TASS.
The talks are being conducted through the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and the Ministry of Defense and in close coordination
between departments, the source added.
"Negotiations are underway. In Turkiye they proceed from the
fact that the grain initiative contributes to ensuring food
security," the source said.
The official also said that Ankara is pinning its hopes to
resume the deal on the upcoming phone and in person talks between
Russian and Turkish Presidents Vladimir Putin and Tayyip
Erdogan.
The leaders of the two countries
are expected to discuss the grain deal by telephone on August 2.
During that conversation, the date of the face-to-face meeting
between the presidents may be defined.
The grain deal ended on July 17. Last week, speaking at the
plenary session of the Russia-Africa forum, Putin said that Russia
had originally agreed to participate in the deal on the condition
that its terms to remove illegitimate obstacles to the supply of
grain and fertilizers from Russia to world markets would be
observed. But none of these conditions was met.
In turn, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin noted
that the grain deal could be resumed "in a new form," but this
requires concrete action on the part of the West.
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