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Added on the 27/07/2022 14:11:08 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visits the Ukraine grain coordination center and speaks at a press conference with Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar in Istanbul. IMAGES
Images of the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin leaving a UN building following talks on renewing the Ukraine grain export deal. Russia has agreed to renew the accord but only for another 60 days. IMAGES
At a press conference in the western city of Lviv with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says that he United Nations wants to step up grain exports from Ukraine before winter. "We will do our best to scale up our operations to face... the coming winter," Guterres says, hailing a deal between Ukraine and Russia brokered by Turkey and the UN that has led to exports resuming this month. SOUNDBITE
Boats transport Russian and Ukrainian officials to the cargo ship Razoni to carry out an inspection of the first shipment of grain exported from Ukraine since the Russian invasion. The ship sailed through a specially cleared corridor in the mine-infested waters of the Black Sea, which had been under a Russian blockade. IMAGES
The first shipment of grain exported by Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion on 24 February waits for inspection off the coast of Turkey. The ship sailed through a specially cleared corridor in the mine-infested waters of the Black Sea, which had been under a Russian blockade. The ship is to be inspected by a team that includes Russian and Ukrainian officials, in accordance with Russia's wish to ascertain the nature of the cargo. IMAGES