(Finance) – The Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres will travel to Lviv in Ukraine to meet the president on 18 August Volodymyr Zelensky and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and then, the next day, he will visit the Ukrainian port of Odessa in the Black Sea. This was announced by a spokesman for the United Nations, Stéphane Dujarric during a press conference, according to AFP.
The meeting “will examine” implementation of the signed international agreement a Istanbul in July to allow grain exports from Ukraine, agreement “of which Turkey is a key element”the spokesperson added.
“A number of issues will be raisedin general, such as the need for a political solution to the conflict. Also discussed, “she said, noting that a bilateral agreement should also take place between the Ukrainian president and the secretary general.
As mentioned, on Friday Guterres will go to Odessa, one of the three Ukrainian ports used under the international agreement that has already allowed the departure of 21 boats loaded, in particular, with corn and wheat.
In an interview with the Washington Post, Zelensky also answered the question of what Western partners can do to prevent Russia to proceed with the Kherson annexation programs. “I have said from the beginning that the most important sanctions are those of closing the borders, because they are taking away someone else’s territory. So let’s make them live in their world until they change their philosophy.”
Emphasizing that “the illegal referendum and the annexation of Kherson” are a violation of “international law and borders”,
the Ukrainian president affirms that the partners could respond “by imposing restrictive sanctions: for example a ban on the entry of Russian citizens into the countries of the European Union”.
According to Zelensky the countries “they should close the borders and put an embargo on energy resources, in my opinion everything else is
weak”.