Erdogan announces that Russia will send free cereals to poor countries in Africa

Russia will send free grain to poor African countries such as Sudan, Somalia or Djibouti, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Friday, commenting on the talks he held with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to reactivate the grain export agreement. Ukrainian cereal.

“We must support low-income countries, the poorest. When we spoke the day before yesterday, Putin told me: ‘We should send this cereal for free to countries like Djibouti, Somalia and Sudan’”, he claimed Erdoğan in a speech broadcast live on the Turkish public broadcaster TRT.

“I agreed and we said that we will talk about this extensively in the G-20″, added the president in reference to the summit of the group of 20 industrialized countries, scheduled for the middle of this month in Indonesia.

“So we agreed. It is the step we must take, it is what must be done. We will talk about it when we meet on the 13th and 14th of this month in Bali”, said Erdoğan.

In the same speech, which he offered during the opening of a business fair in Istanbul, the Turkish president mentioned that he had spoken yesterday with the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, to ask him to speak at the G20 summit about the fate of the food exported from Ukraine under the agreement signed last July between kyiv and Moscow.

“Do we send these grains and fertilizers to the rich countries or to the low-income, the poor, the dispossessed? Steps have to be taken on this.” Erdoğan said.

Of the almost 10 million tons of agricultural products exported since August Ukraine under the deal, almost half has gone to Western European ports, more than a third to the Asia-Pacific region, mainly China, and 1.3 million tons to Africa, mostly Egypt.

Source: Elcomercio

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