Moscow has given the U.N. Secretariat-General three months to meet its conditions for reactivating a year-old agreement that had allowed Ukraine to export grain through the Black Sea.
“The U.N. has three months to achieve concrete results,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on July 19.
Otherwise, she inferred, the agreement would be considered a dead letter.
Brokered last year by the U.N. and Turkey, the agreement expired on July 17. Moscow declined to renew it, however, saying key conditions were never fulfilled.
The first part of the deal allows Ukraine to continue exporting grain through the Black Sea, despite the ongoing conflict with Russia….