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Ukraine says Russia delaying inspections of ships

Dec, 30, 2022 Posted by Gabriel Malheiros

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According to Ukraine’s Infrastructure Ministry, a total of 99 vessels have been waiting for inspection in the Bosphorus Strait for over a month. Seventy-two were headed west to be loaded at ports, and 27 were already carrying Ukrainian agricultural products.

The ships were sent under the Black Sea Grain Initiative, an UN-backed deal signed in July by Ukraine, Russia, and Turkey. It aimed to unblock Ukrainian grain exports that had been stalled since Russia’Russia’son in February.

The Joint Coordination Center was established to coordinate the deal’s implementation, and each has representatives within it.

Turkish Transport and Infrastructure Minister Adil Karaismailoglu said that over 15 million tonnes of products had left Ukraine through the agreement since August.

“These are deliberate actions by Russian inspectors to stall the process. First, they reduced the number of inspection groups to three and began to lengthen inspection times. Second, “Russian representatives began to check parameters not even required by the JCC and unrelated to the subject of inspection, such as the amount of fuel,” said Ukraine’s Ministry of Infrastructure. The data comes from APK Inform.

Source: Canal Rural

To read the full original article, please go to: https://www.canalrural.com.br/radar/graos-russia-bloqueia-inspecao-de-navios-no-estreito-de-bosforo/

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