The United Nations announced the dispatch of the first ship with Russian fertilizers from the Netherlands to Africa.
This information was announced on November 29 by the representative of the organization’s Secretary General, Stephane Dujarric.
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UN statement
As Dujarric reported, a cargo ship with the first batch of Russian fertilizers for African countries left the Dutch port today.
The 20,000-ton cargo will be delivered via Mozambique to Malawi.
The representative of the UN Secretary General emphasized that the organization actively maintains diplomatic contacts with all parties to ensure uninterrupted supplies of Ukrainian and Russian fertilizers and food released from sanctions to world markets.
Dujarric noted that the UN welcomes Russia’s donation of 260,000 tons of fertilizers stored in ports and warehouses in European countries in order to meet humanitarian needs against the backdrop of a catastrophic grain crop failure in African countries, and on behalf of the organization’s Secretary General expressed gratitude to the governments of Russia, the Netherlands, and Malawi and to the European Union for its willingness to supply the first critical cargo of fertilizers under WFP for the sake of global food security.
Earlier it was reported that on November 12, the Russian company Uralchem-Uralkali agreed to export humanitarian shipments of fertilizers blocked in warehouses in Estonia, Belgium and the Netherlands to African countries.
