“Tomorrow, he will join President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in a meeting chaired by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine,” said United Nations Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq. told a regular press conference in New York.
“He will continue to visit Odesa and then Istanbul in the following days,” he added.
Check seeds
During his visit, the head of the United Nations will visit one of the three Ukrainian ports involved in the framework of the Black Sea Initiative for the export of wheat grains.
Before the start of the conflict in February, Ukraine was exporting up to six million tons of grain a month.
However, the war caused food shortages, leaving African countries among the hardest hit.
Yesterday as the first humanitarian boat in the framework of the Initiative to leave for the Horn of Africa, the head of the World Food Program (WFP), David Beasley, said that opening Black Sea Ports is “the most important thing we can do right now”.
“It will take more than grain trains out of Ukraine to stop world hunger, but with Ukrainian grain returning to the global market, we have an opportunity to avert the crisis,” he said. This global food crisis continues to grow,” he said.
Travel first
Before returning to New York, Mr. Guterres will stop in Istanbul, Turkey, to visit the Joint Coordination Center, the mechanism supporting the implementation of the United Nations-brokered Black Sea Initiative on military exports. glass.
This was the second call Mr. Guterres made to Ukraine after the Russian invasion began on February 24.
The secretary-general first flew home in late April when he visited the devastated suburbs of the capital Kyiv, meeting with President Zelensky and other high-ranking officials of the country.
