Turkey’s President Erdogan and Russia’s President Putin had an agreement to provide Russian grain to underdeveloped nations in Africa.
ISTANBUL, Nov 4 (Reuters) – Friday, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said that he and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, had agreed that poor African countries should get Russian grains for free as part of the Black Sea export deal.
“When I talked to Vladimir Putin on the phone, he said, ‘Let’s send this grain for free to places like Djibouti, Somalia, and Sudan,'” Erdogan told businesspeople in Istanbul.
This comment came after Moscow rejoined the grain deal brokered by the U.N. and Turkey on Wednesday. This ended four days of non-cooperation, during which exports from Ukrainian ports still went on.
This week, Putin said that even if Russia left the agreement again, it would give the “poorest countries” all of the grain from its own stock for free.
