WSJ learned about US plans to lift sanctions from Minsk in exchange for grain transit

Washington may temporarily lift sanctions on potash fertilizers from Belarus if it allows Ukrainian grain to be exported to Latvia, WSJ sources say. The paper previously reported

The US authorities are considering the possibility of lifting the restrictive measures imposed against potash fertilizers produced in Belarus if the official MINSK agrees to the transit of Ukrainian grain through the territory of Belarus, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported citing informed sources.

The interlocutors of the publication specified that these sanctions could be lifted for six months and, if the Belarusian authorities agreed, grain crops would be delivered by rail to the port of the Lithuanian city of Klaipeda.

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Earlier, WSJ diplomatic sources reported on a similar proposal by UN Secretary General António Guterres, who called on Moscow to ease export restrictions on fertilizers from Russia and Belarus in exchange for the passage of ships with grain from Ukraine.

Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya then called the publication "a free interpretation." He said that during a visit to Russia at the end of April, he did discuss the lifting of sanctions against potash fertilizers, but without reference to the situation with grain. “This issue was indeed raised by Guterres, but not in terms of exchanging one for the other,” the diplomat argued.

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The American authorities believe that about 20 million tons of grain have accumulated in Ukraine, which are difficult to take out of the country. The UN World Food Program estimates this volume at 25 million tons, indicating that this situation has developed due to “blocked Black Sea ports” and problems with infrastructure. “We are exploring ways to bring this grain back to the world market and thereby bring prices down,” US President Joe Biden said in mid-May .

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At the same time, Nebenzya said that Russia would be ready to export 25 million tons of grain through the port of Novorossiysk from August to the end of the year. He added that the accusations against Moscow regarding the emergence of a food crisis "are not just absurd, but blasphemous." “If you don’t want to lift your self-imposed sanctions, then why are you blaming us for the food crisis?” the diplomat stressed. Over the entire past year, Russia exported a similar amount of grain - 30 million tons, said the HEAD of the Ministry of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov.

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