On the table is the possibility of lifting most of the sanctions imposed on Russia after the invasion of Ukraine. Guterres’ letter to the head of Russian diplomacy is dated August 28.
It was the Secretary General of the United Nations himself who announced that he had sent a letter to the Russian authorities. Anthony Guterres revealed that he shared “a set of concrete proposals” to the Russian Foreign Minister to try to restore the Black Sea Grains Agreement, blocked by Russia in July. Now, the German newspaper Bild (content closed) reveals what Guterres proposes in this letter: eliminate sanctions or find clever ways to circumvent them.
The letter sent to Sergei Lavrov on August 28 is based on four pillars, according to Bild: bypass SWIFT sanctions, create insurance for Russian ships that are attacked by Ukrainian forces, recover frozen assets due to sanctions and eventually access of Russian ships to EU ports for agricultural trade.
The Ukrainian Government reacted to the news – which has not yet received any comment from the United Nations – and criticized the lifting of part of the international sanctions. “Weaken part of the sanctions regime against the Russian Federation in exchange for the restoration of the grain agreement It would be a triumph of Russian food blackmail and an invitation to new waves of blackmail. by Moscow,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko wrote on social media.
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Source: Observadora
