{"id":34660,"date":"2023-05-04T18:12:59","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T18:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/russia-ukraine-turkey-and\/"},"modified":"2023-05-04T18:17:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T18:17:16","slug":"russia-ukraine-turkey-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/russia-ukraine-turkey-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and UN to discuss grain deal on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISTANBUL (Reuters) &#8211;     Technical personnel from Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, and the United Nations will meet on Friday to discuss a deal that allows the exports of Ukrainian grains on the Black Sea, Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said.<\/p>\n<p>The evacuation of Turkish-flagged ships and grain shipments from Black Sea ports as part of the deal will be discussed, Akar  said.<\/p>\n<p>Ankara is working to extend the deal that will expire on May 18. Friday&#8217;s meeting would be technical and it would be followed up by a deputy ministers&#8217; meeting next week, a Turkish defence ministry statement cited Akar as saying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We continue our efforts to ensure that the grain initiative continues in a fast, safe, and planned manner. We got the impression from discussions that these efforts will produce positive results,&#8221; Akar said.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations and Turkey brokered what was described as a package deal in July last year &#8211; the safe resumption of Ukraine&#8217;s Black Sea grain exports and a U.N. commitment to help Russian shipments of grain and fertilizer.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has a list of demands it wants met for continuation of the Black Sea pact, which the U.N. said helps tackle a global food crisis aggravated by Moscow&#8217;s war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Huseyin Hayatsever and Ezgi Erkoyun; editing by Grant McCool)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/russia-ukraine-turkey-and\/file-photo-a-load-of-corn-is-poured-into-a\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ430SE-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ430SE-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISTANBUL (Reuters) &#8211; Technical personnel from Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, and the United Nations will meet on Friday to discuss a deal that allows the exports of Ukrainian grains on the Black Sea, Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said. The evacuation of Turkish-flagged ships and grain shipments from Black Sea ports as part of the deal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":34661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ430SE-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34662,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34660\/revisions\/34662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}