U.S. offers companies 'letters of guarantee' to export grain from Russia

Exporting companies and insurers are 'a little nervous' about being sanctioned for participating in Russian grain and fertilizer exports, U.S. envoy saidat the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield

The United States is ready to provide guarantees to exporting companies and insurers who fear possible sanctions due to participation in the EXPORT of Russian grain and fertilizers. US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield stated this, REUTERS reports.

She noted that restrictive measures do not apply to the export of grain and fertilizers, but "companies are a little nervous, and we are ready to send them letters of guarantee if it helps to inspire them."

According to the official representative of the UN Secretary General, Stephane Dujarric, on the eve of the UN Conference on Trade and Development Secretary General Rebecca Greenspan was in Moscow, she held negotiations on the supply of grain with First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov. Dujarric called them constructive. The press service of the Russian government, in turn, said that Greenspan and Belousov discussed the export of Russian food products and fertilizers "in order to stabilize the situation on world food markets," but did not report the results.

In Kyiv, they requested international guarantees for the export of grain from Ukraine Politics

UN Secretary General António Guterres, who visited Moscow and Kyiv in April, is seeking a "package deal" that would help resume grain shipments from Ukraine, as well as food and fertilizer exports from RUSSIA, Reuters notes.

The day before, Russian President Vladimir Putin , during a telephone conversation with Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said that Moscow was ready to facilitate the unhindered maritime transit of goods, including the export of grain from Ukrainian ports, and coordinate actions with Ankara. “[Guterres] is extremely grateful for the support that Turkey is providing in resolving the situation in the Black Sea, as well as supporting the efforts of the Secretary General himself,” Dujarric said.

On May 28, Putin told French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz that Russia is ready to increase the export of agricultural products and fertilizers, but this "will require the lifting of the relevant sanctions restrictions." He also announced the readiness of the Russian side to find options to freely export Ukrainian grain from the Black Sea ports. In early May, the DIRECTOR of the UN World Food Program (WFP) in Germany, Martin Frick, said that about 4.5 million tons of grain had accumulated there, which could not be taken out.

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Putin offered Macron and Scholz fertilizer in exchange for lifting sanctions Politics

Russia's representative to the UN Security Council, Vasyl Nebenzya, said that the country opened a safe corridor for grain transportation in the Black Sea, but ships from the Ukrainian port in Odessa did not use it. “We are accused of not letting ships through, but we didn’t plant the mines,” he explained. Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Andrei Rudenko also said that Moscow could open access to the seaports of Ukraine, the approaches to which are controlled by Russian warships, if the US and the EU lift sanctions from it.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba called for the launch of an international operation in the Black Sea to resume the export of Ukrainian wheat. According to him, Russia's unilateral guarantees are not enough for this, and third countries or the UN should be involved in the process.

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