UN, July 21 Moscow will return to the grain deal if seven conditions are met, Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Representative of Russia to the organization, said at a meeting of the UN Security Council.
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“Firstly, this is a real, not a speculative conclusion from the sanctions on the supply of Russian grain and fertilizers to world markets. Second: all obstacles for Russian banks, financial institutions that serve the supply of food and fertilizers must be removed,» he said.
According to Polyansky, this includes the immediate connection of these organizations to the SWIFT international banking settlement system. He stressed that any new promises and ideas on this issue would not suit Moscow.
In addition, as noted by the Deputy Representative, it is necessary to resume supplies to Russia of spare parts and components for agricultural machinery and the fertilizer industry. He added that the cost of these parts for domestic manufacturers has increased by 40 percent. At the same time, the growth of costs in financial transactions amounted to about ten percent, and the total losses reached $1.6 billion, the diplomat said.
The fourth condition: the solution of all issues with fr yacht charter and insurance of Russian food exports, as well as ensuring all the logistics of these supplies.
“The increase in the cost of chartering sea vessels for the transportation of goods, the cost of international financial settlements, and other transactions has led to a loss in the profitability of deliveries by half,” Polyansky specified.
In addition, according to the diplomat, it is necessary to provide unhindered conditions for expanding the supply of Russian fertilizers and raw materials for their production. We are talking, among other things, about the resumption of the operation of the Togliatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline.
The sixth condition Polyansky called the unblocking of Russian assets related to the agricultural industry.
“Finally, the seventh is the restoration of the original humanitarian nature of the grain deal.” It should work in the interests of countries in need, and not make rich countries even richer,» he said.
The diplomat stressed that as soon as all these conditions are met, Moscow will immediately return to the grain deal. Nevertheless, now Russian representatives see and hear only demagogy and hypocrisy, he concluded.
The Black Sea Initiative, signed last year by representatives of Russia, Turkey, Ukraine and the UN, ceased to operate on July 18. Its terms included the export of Ukrainian grain, food and fertilizer from three Black Sea ports, including Odessa. It was part of the package deal. The second part is the Russia-UN memorandum, designed for three years.
As Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday, without fulfilling the points of the memorandum, «the continuation of the grain deal in the form in which it existed has lost all meaning.» According to him, Moscow will consider the possibility of returning to the implementation of the agreement if all the principles of its participation in it, without exception, are taken into account and implemented.