Erdogan will speak with Putin on Monday about peace in Ukraine and the grain agreement
The president of Turkey, Recep Tayip Erdogan, will hold talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on Monday to discuss international efforts to achieve peace in Ukraine, as announced this Sunday. Erdogan will try, he has said, to convince Putin to resume the Black Sea agreement on the safe transit of agricultural products, which Russia unilaterally abandoned several months ago.
Türkiye, which has been the scene of several rounds of talks between kyiv and Moscow in the nearly four years of war, maintains dialogue with both sides. After the G-20 summit in South Africa, Erdogan stated that the so-called grain agreement, by which Ukraine and Russia committed to the safe transit of agricultural products in 2022, [cereales y fertilizantes, fundamentalmente] through the Black Sea with inspections in Istanbul to prevent the transport of weapons and from which Russia dissociated itself a year later, was intended to pave the way for a peaceful resolution of the conflict.
“We were successful in this to a certain extent, but it did not continue. Now, during the talks we will have tomorrow [por el lunes]I will ask Mr. Putin again. “I think it would be very beneficial if we could start this process,” Erdogan said.
He has also stated that he will debate with the Russian autocrat about how to “end the deaths” of the war and has announced that he will share with European leaders and the US Government the results of his conversation with Putin.
Erdogan has not directly referred to the peace plan proposed by the United States to end the war, which is being debated this Sunday in Switzerland between representatives of the United States, Ukraine, France, Germany and the United Kingdom. Europe does not like the plan, which sees it as too tilted towards Russia and has been cooked up without European participation. (Reuters)
