UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on June 12 he is concerned that Russia will on July 17 quit a deal allowing the safe wartime export of grain and fertilizers from three Ukrainian Black Sea ports. Moscow has been threatening to walk away from the deal known as the Black Sea grain initiative -- brokered by the UN and Turkey last year -- if obstacles to its own grain and fertilizer shipments are not removed. "I am concerned, and we are working hard in order to make sure that it will be possible to maintain the Black Sea initiative," Guterres told reporters. To read the original story by Reuters, click here.
UN Chief Concerned Russia Will Quit Black Sea Grain Deal In July
Workers load grain at a grain port in Izmayil, Ukraine, on April 26.