{"id":79213,"date":"2023-05-16T20:30:28","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T15:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/?p=79213"},"modified":"2023-05-16T16:20:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T11:20:31","slug":"kremlin-says-unanswered-questions-remain-over-ukraine-grain-deal-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/latest-business-news\/kremlin-says-unanswered-questions-remain-over-ukraine-grain-deal-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Kremlin says &#8216;unanswered questions&#8217; remain over Ukraine grain deal extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow, May 16 (AFP\/APP): Russia said Tuesday it was still undecided on the extension of a landmark grain export deal with Ukraine, brokered by the UN and Turkey and due to expire May 18.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are a lot of unanswered questions regarding our part of the deal &#8230; now we have to make a decision,&#8221; Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict between Russia and Ukraine &#8212; both major grain exporters &#8212; triggered fears of a global food crisis when major Ukrainian ports were blocked by Moscow&#8217;s warships.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2022, the agreement allowing Ukrainian grain exports to restart was signed, as well as a parallel memorandum on unhindered Russian food and fertiliser exports.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has however repeatedly threatened to withdraw from the deal, claiming that obstacles remain to its own food exports.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow says the problems stem from secondary effects of Western penalties on shipping and insurance companies as well as banks.<\/p>\n<p>During recent talks in Istanbul, Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said: &#8220;we are heading toward an agreement on the extension of the grain deal&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has laid out a list of conditions for it to agree to an extension, including allowing the Russian Agricultural Bank (Rosselkhozbank) to reconnect to the Swift payment system.<\/p>\n<p>Supplies of agricultural machinery, spare parts and services also have to be resumed, and obstacles to granting Russian vessels insurance and access to foreign ports must be lifted, it says.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow&#8217;s conditions also include the resumption of ammonia exports for fertilisers through a major pipeline that goes through Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow, May 16 (AFP\/APP): Russia said Tuesday it was still undecided on the extension of a landmark grain export deal with Ukraine, brokered by the UN and Turkey and due to expire May 18. &#8220;There are a lot of unanswered questions regarding our part of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":79214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-business-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kremlin says &#039;unanswered questions&#039; 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