MFA of Ukraine is convinced that russia is responsible for the delay of the work of “grain corridor”
25.10.2022 - 10:10
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine is sure that the actions of russian federation led to traffic jams from ships near Istanbul.
Starting from October 14, russian inspectors of the Istanbul Joint Coordination Center significantly extended the duration of inspections of vessels that are heading to Ukrainian ports with grain cargoes or are already loaded and on their way to their final destination. As a result, more than one and a half hundred ships are stuck in a queue near the Bosphorus Strait, and this number continues to grow every day, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine reported.
Delays in the inspections of grain initiative vessels are politically motivated, the ministry believes. Thus, the russian leadership has repeatedly tried without legal grounds to question the “grain corridor”, demanding new benefits for agreeing to extend the agreement.
“Russia’s actions undermine global food security. Inspection delays prevented Ukraine from exporting an additional 3 million tons of grain,” added the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The agency calls on the international community, in particular countries in Africa and Asia that rely on grain exports from Ukraine, to demand that russia immediately stop these artificial delays in inspecting grain corridor vessels.
Ukraine also appealed to the Secretariat of the Joint Coordination Center with a request to urgently resolve the procrastination on the part of russia, in particular by increasing the number of inspectors in the Bosphorus Strait.
As USM wrote earlier, there is a large traffic jam in the Sea of Marmara. The crowding occurred as a result of the delay of vessels with Ukrainian grain.
“Some ships are waiting for inspection by the SCC for more than 20 days. This leads to disruption of contract deadlines and disruption throughout the logistics network. Irregular loading of ports and inspection of ships lead to the fact that Ukraine loses time and volumes that could be exported,” Andriy Klymenko, head of the Institute of Strategic Black Sea Studies, said at the briefing.
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