The UN announced the terms of sending a ship with Russian fertilizers from the Netherlands Russia

previously announced its readiness to donate fertilizers to developing countries free of charge,blocked in European ports due to sanctionsStéphane Dujarric

A ship with Russian fertilizers may leave the Netherlands for Malawi in the next 48 hours, UN Secretary General Stéphane Dujarric, a spokesman for the UN Secretary General, said at a briefing. The broadcast was conducted on the website of the organization.

“We expect movement, I think, in the next 48 hours, as soon as this happens, we will confirm it,” he said, answering a question about the timing of sending a ship with Russian fertilizers to Malawi.

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Russian exporters of food and fertilizers have faced difficulties after the imposition of Western sanctions due to a special operation in Ukraine. Such difficulties are associated with a ban on insuring Russian ships, letting them into European ports, with disconnecting a number of banks from SWIFT and limiting the work of international transport companies, explained Anton Siluanov, head of the Russian Finance Ministry.

By the beginning of autumn, 300 thousand tons of Russian fertilizers had accumulated in European ports, Russian President Vladimir Putin pointed out . He declared his readiness to transfer them free of charge to developing countries.

In mid-November, the Uralchem-Uralkali group of companies announced that it had reached agreements on the export of Russian fertilizers blocked in the Netherlands, Belgium and Estonia to African countries. In particular, on November 8, an agreement was signed on such deliveries from the port of the Netherlands to Malawi. In Uralchem, RBC specified that the batch would be loaded onto a ship of the UN World Food Program and delivered to an African country within a week after November 21.