MOSCOW, July 21 Moscow is working on top-level contacts with Ankara, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin said.
«»As for the conversations and contacts at the highest level, they are constantly being worked out. Naturally, there will be,” he said during a briefing.
Earlier, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that he was counting on negotiations with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in the near future on a “grain deal”. This meant the withdrawal of Russian guarantees for the safety of navigation and the curtailment of the maritime humanitarian corridor in the northwestern Black Sea. The regime temporarily dangerous for navigation is being restored for this area.
The deal itself, which assumed the safe export of Ukrainian grain and food, as well as fertilizers across the Black Sea from three ports (Chernomorsk, Yuzhny, Odessa), was in effect for almost a year: it was signed on July 22, 2022 in Istanbul and was an integral part of the Istanbul package agreement signed by representatives of the Russian Federation, the UN, Ukraine and Turkey.
The second part is a meme The Russia-UN ordinance, designed for three years, provides for the unblocking of Russian exports of food and fertilizers. The extension of the «grain deal» was interconnected with the implementation of the memorandum, which, as the Russian authorities said, did not work.