Belarus calls on UN for more efforts to remove obstacles in shipping fertilizers

Belarus insists on eliminating restrictions on the supply of potash fertilizers and putting this issue on the agenda of international structures that are making efforts to prevent a global food crisis, Belarusian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Yuri Ambrazevich told the media, BelTA has learned. The question addressed for the deputy minister of foreign affairs was related to the recent comments of UNCTAD Secretary-General Rebeca Grynspan at a press conference in New York on the efforts made by the UN to eliminate obstacles to food and fertilizer supplies from Russia.

Specifically, she said that the UN Group has been working hard to remove obstacles to the supply of food and fertilizers from Russia in terms of finance, insurance, shipping and transportation. That raises the question of why the removal of obstacles to the supply of Belarusian potash fertilizers has not been touched upon.

Would the international efforts that Grynspan talks about be exhaustive if the world's largest fertilizer producer, Belarus, were to drop out of the chain? “Belarus would like to welcome real progress in resolving the issue of removing obstacles to access of Russian goods to international markets, including Russian mineral fertilizers,” Yuri Ambrazevich said. “The easier it will be for Russia to ensure its export freedom, the more opportunities it will have for mutually beneficial trade with Belarus, for the purchase of Belarusian goods, for the implementation of other important cooperation projects within the framework of the Union State.

As a matter of fact, the same is true with regard to Belarus' export freedom,” he said. However, there has been insufficient action by both the UN Secretary-General