Putin: Russia intentionally provides fertilizers to develop the European port for free to developing countries

Xinhua News Agency, Moscow, September 9th (Reporter Huadi) Russian President Putin said in the Russian Security Conference on the 9th that Russia intends to provide hundreds of thousands of tons of chemical fertilizers to the urgent developing countries. First of all, first of all Consider providing potassium fertilizer for free. Putin asked the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to study related issues.

Putin said that from May to August this year, Russia provided 7 million tons of chemical fertilizer to other countries. Putin emphasized that the European Union prohibits the discrimination of Russia's fertilizer to other regions through European ports.

Putin also said that from May to August this year, Russia exported 6.6 million tons of grain to the global market, including wheat, barley and corn, of which 6.3 million tons were transported to Asia, Africa and Latin America. By the end of this year, Russia can export 30 million tons of grain to other countries. In view of the good harvest this year, Russian grain exports may increase to 50 million tons or more.

Since the upgrading of the Ukraine crisis, Western countries such as the United States have implemented multiple rounds of sanctions and economic restrictions on Russia, but claiming that sanctions do not involve agricultural production, sales and transportation. However, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement on August 26 that there were many obstacles to the Western sanctions on bank settlement, insurance and shipping, and a large number of Russian fertilizers and raw materials retention transfer stations.

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