A crucial agreement for global food security. The Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, presented, on Monday 24 April, a “way forward” to allow the extension of the agreement on Ukrainian grain exports, his services said in a press release. He handed over to Sergey Lavrov “a letter for President Vladimir Putin, outlining a proposed way forward to improve, prolong and expand” the agreement which allows, since July 2022, the export of nearly 25 million tons of Ukrainian cereals via the Black Sea, despite the conflict. A similar letter was sent “to the other two signatories” of this agreement, Ukraine and Turkey. Follow our live.
Emmanuel Macron plans to return to Ukraine. “Obviously, I will return in the next few weeks, next months (…) to Ukraine”, Emmanuel Macron said Monday at a press conference in Ostend (Belgium), on the sidelines of a summit on offshore wind power on Monday. Such a move will take place “as soon as we have defined with the European partners and President Zelensky the right moment”he detailed, expressing his wish to go there only for “to bring results or at moments that were decisive”.
A Ukrainian drone has fallen in Russia, according to Moscow. The Russian authorities claim that the aircraft crashed about fifty kilometers from Moscow, without causing any casualties or damage. It would be only the second such incident reported in the Moscow region since the start of the offensive in Ukraine in February 2022.
Controversy over a meeting organized by Russia at the UN. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov chaired a special meeting of the UN Security Council, of which Russia holds the rotating presidency in April, on the “defense of principles” of the UN Charter. A charter that she is accused of having violated by launching an offensive in Ukraine. The European Union ambassador to the United Nations denounced an attitude “cynical”.