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Moscow has seen "practically no results" from a pact with the United Nations that aimed to help Russia's grain and fertilizer exports and blamed the Western countries for creating a deadlock, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday.
Russia has signaled that it will not agree to extend a related deal that allows the safe wartime export of grain from Ukraine's Black Sea ports beyond May 18 unless a list of demands is met.
Russia signed a three-year deal last July in which the United Nations agreed to help try and remove any obstacles to its grain and fertilizer exports.
Moscow could not accept the alternative of having to "each time manually take the effort and plead" with American and European ports, banks, and insurance companies for help unless Russia could export grain and fertilizer globally without hindrance, Lavrov said.
"That's not the deal we reached on 22 July last year," he said.
(Cover: Bulk carrier in the port of Odesa, southern Ukraine on August 19, 2022. /CFP)
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