NEW YORK – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres welcomed the departure of the first ship with grain from the port of Odessa on Monday morning and called it “a collective achievement of the Joint Coordination Centre”.
“The Secretary-General hopes that this will be the first of many commercial ships moving in accordance with the initiative signed, and that this will bring much-needed stability and relief to global food security, especially in the most fragile humanitarian contexts,” the UN said in a statement.
The sailing was made possible after Turkey and the UN brokered a grain-and-fertiliser export agreement between Russia and Ukraine last month.
