French President Emanuel Macron announced on Thursday that France is helping Romania to transit large quantities of grain crops blocked in Ukraine. “Frame” allowing them to cross the Black Sea because of the Russian blockade. “We will continue the diplomatic confrontation with Russia in connection with the UN Secretary General.” Use the port of Odessa as a seaport for seeds (corn, wheat, etc.). “Which are blocked”explained the French President on TF1 private TV channel interrogated in Ki.
But: “Because Russia refuses.”“We are working on another road that we have to cross through Romania”, Odessa is only “a few tens of kilometers” from the Ukrainian-Romanian border. Because: “It will allow” According to him, in order to be able to enter, in particular, the Danube Railways to transport these grain products to international markets.
This is Romania, where Emanuel Macron visited on Tuesdays and Wednesdays before leaving for Ki! “In the process of making investments” for “Form a kind of point of contact”, from which “we will be able to export these grains much faster and in bulk than today.” France “We will help him with our experts, our soldiers, our companies.”added Emanuel Macron.
Without reaching an agreement, the UN has been negotiating for several weeks with Moscow, Kiev and Ankara, which are military guarantors of the use of the North Sea for civilian ships, an agreement that will allow grain products to leave Ukraine safe and fertilizers produced. Russia will return to the international market. If an agreement was reached, it would reduce food prices, alleviate the global food crisis, which is exacerbated by the Russian invasion.
On TF1, Emanuel Macron stressed that his visit to Ki, which was criticized by the opposition three days before the second round of the legislative elections, was aimed at: “Defend our country”because “The rise in gasoline and gas prices is linked to this conflict, to the choices that Russia makes every day to play with the raw materials at its disposal in order for them to rise. We are putting pressure on them.”
Source: Le Figaro
