Russia seeks nonstop access to grains, fertiliser market, says foreign minister
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Russia wants no one to disrupt its access to the grains and fertiliser market.
He said this in an interview with Channel One Broadcaster, stressing that, “we want the grain market and the fertiliser market to be predictable so that no one tries to push us away from this market.
“Not only because we want to get legitimate profit in fair competition, but also because we are concerned about the food security situation in African countries. Russia is also concerned about food security in countries of the Global South and the East, which are suffering from the games of the West.”
According to Mr Lavrov, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and his team are in constant contact with Russia on the Russia-UN memorandum on export of fertilisers and grains.
He said the Russia-UN memorandum on the need to remove barriers to export of Russian grains and fertilisers, which is made up of a larger share of world markets than the Ukrainian one, is valid for three years and continues to be valid until July of this year.
(RIA Novosti/NAN)
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