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Evelyn Leopold Tuesday, Aug 30, 2022
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As the war continues, Russia could bomb the Ukrainian Black Sea ports of
Odesa (again), Chernomorsk and Yuzhny, and this may result in goods being
redirected toward the much slower Danube waterway. And now the world fears
a nuclear disaster with the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest in
Europe, having fallen under Russian occupation.

Some 84 Ukrainian ships, many of them carrying grain, were stuck in the Black
Sea till June. On August 19, port officials in Istanbul reported grain and
foodstuffs exported from the three Ukrainian ports amounted to 656,349 metric
tons under the Black Sea Grain Initiative. This figure is half of how much
Ukraine was exporting on a daily basis before the start of the war. The
operation is, however, dependent on commercial shippers and their insurance
companies.

Although UN officials say the venture has lowered the price of foodstuffs
worldwide, getting grain or wheat to the neediest countries is now up to the UN
World Food Program (WFP). The WFP chartered the Liberia-flagged Brave
Commander to carry 23,000 metric tons of wheat to Ethiopia, one of the 43
countries facing acute food insecurity, which is bordering on famine. Other
vessels are expected to follow. On August 16, U.S. Secretary of State Antony
Blinken said that the United States had contributed $68 million to the operation.

Taking an unprecedented risk, Secretary-General Guterres traveled to Lviv,

Ukraine, some 43 miles from the Polish border, on August 18 to meet Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Ukrainian President Volodymyr
Zelenskyy, who arranged the meeting. The object of this meeting was to boost
grain exports from Ukraine and discuss security around the Zaporizhzhia
nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine.

Chief UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric, who was on the trip to Lviv, said
Guterres visited the Black Sea port of Odesa to view the resumption of exports
under the UN-brokered deal, and he boarded a pilot boat in the Sea of Marmara
on August 20 where he examined a ship ready to leave the port. The secretary-
general then went to the Joint Coordination Center in Istanbul, Turkey,
comprising Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish and UN officials, who were overseeing
exports of Ukraine grain and fertilizer under the Black Sea Grain Initiative.

Much of the heavy lifting in setting up the agreements was done by Martin
Griffiths, the UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, and Costa
Rica’s former Vice President Rebeca Grynspan, now the secretary-general of
the UN Conference on Trade and Development, who negotiated for the export of
fertilizers from Russia amid sanctions. Russian troops captured the
Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine in early March. The
Russian and Ukrainian governments have accused each other of shelling the
power plant site. With its six reactors and a net output of 5,700 megawatts, it is
the largest nuclear power plant in Europe.

Guterres, while speaking to reporters during his visit to Lviv, emphasized the
need to withdraw Russian military equipment and personnel from the plant
and further called for efforts to ensure that the site is not the target of military
operations. But Russia has rejected calls to demilitarize the area.

Excerpted: ‘The UN Proved Its Usefulness in Crafting Ukraine Grain Deal’.

Courtesy: Counterpunch.org

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