G7 Ambassadors, Zelenskyy in Odesa to ensure grain export deal

29/07/2022

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G7 ambassadors arrive in Odesa to Ambassador to oversee grain export deal, UK Ambassador to Ukraine Melinda Simmons tweeted.

“My fellow G7 ambassadors and I are in Odesa with Türkiye to reiterate the importance of the UN-brokered deal allowing food to be shipped out of Ukraine.

Russia must respect the deal.”

My fellow G7 ambassadors and I are in Odesa with Turkey to reiterate the importance of the UN-brokered deal allowing food to be shipped out of Ukraine.

Russia must respect the deal. #FoodIsNotAWeapon

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— Dame Melinda Simmons (@MelSimmonsFCDO) July 29, 2022

President Zelenskyy joined the G7 Ambassadors in Odesa as well.

“It’s important for us to remain a guarantor of food security. While [Russia] takes away life of other states by blocking Black Sea, [Ukraine] gives them opportunity to survive,” he said, inspecting the first ship with grain export since start of war.

G7 Ambassadors & Zelenskyy in Odesa next to the first ship to be loaded with grain to be exported from the port of Odesa since the start of the war. Source: Zelenskyy’s TG

Earlier, on 22 July, Russia and Ukraine separately signed deal with Türkiye and the UN on unblocking ports & allowing grain export. But the next day Russia violated the agreement by launching missile attack on Odesa.

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