United Nations (United States) - (AFP) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday appointed a new coordinator for the Black Sea Grains Initiative, the deal reached in July between the United Nations, Ukraine, Russia and Turkey aimed at alleviating the food crisis. Globalism.

And the Sudanese Amir Mahmoud Abdullah, who had held the position since August, was replaced by the Kuwaiti Abdullah Abdul Samad Dashti, a retired admiral in the armed forces in his country, Guterres' spokesman announced in a statement.

Guterres' office noted, "The Secretary-General is grateful to Mr. Abdullah for his supervision, hard work, and commitment to implementing the initiative, especially during difficult times."

In recent years, Dashti, a former soldier in the Navy, served as Kuwait's military attaché in Belgium and his country's representative to NATO.

The Black Sea Grain Initiative (the official name of the agreement for Ukrainian grain exports from Ukrainian ports) resulted from an agreement struck on July 22 and helped alleviate the global food crisis caused by the war.

The agreement was renewed in mid-November for four months in the winter.

According to Ukraine's Ministry of Agrarian Policy, so far a total of 580 ships carrying 15 million tons of grain have left Ukrainian ports since July, bound for Asia, Africa and Europe.

On December 15, Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Rebecca Greenspan, who is participating in the initiative, announced that more than 14 million tons of grain had been exported from Ukrainian ports.
For its part, Russia deplores the failure to implement a second agreement with the United Nations dating back to July 22 regarding its exports of grain and fertilizers, due to Western sanctions, according to it.