“Guteres and his team are working hard to extend and expand the Black Sea Grains Initiative,” a senior UN official said.
The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and his team are working to expand and extend the agreement allowing grain exports from Ukraine, which is expected to expire at the end of November, his spokesman Stefan Duzarich announced today.
“The Secretary-General’s teams have begun intensive contacts on these issues. Guterres and his team are working hard to extend and expand the Black Sea Grains Initiative. They are also working diligently to to remove the last obstacles to facilitate Russian grain and fertilizer exports,” Dujarric said, adding that UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths and Rebecca Greenspan, the UN’s top trade official, would travel to Moscow “in about a week to to discuss with high-ranking Russian officials” this issue.
“The secretary-general is spending a lot of time on the phone de-tangling the situation in various bureaucracies that are stopping the facilitation of this trade in Russian fertilizers and grain,” the spokesman assured.
World food prices continued to decline in September for the sixth consecutive month, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) announced today.
But the FAO cereal price index rose slightly by 1.5% compared to August. International wheat prices rose 2.2% on drought concerns in the United States and Argentina, as well as uncertainty over an extension of the Black Sea Initiative beyond November
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