Swiss President arrives in Ukraine to attend International Summit on Food Security

On November 25, Swiss President Alain Berset announced that he had arrived in the capital Kiev to meet his Ukrainian counterpart and attend an international summit on food security.

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Image of people harvesting wheat in a field. (Source: Reuters)

In a post on Reuters , Swiss President Alain Berset announced that he arrived in the capital Kiev on November 25 to meet his Ukrainian counterpart and attend an international summit on food security, despite Russia's blockade of the Black Sea - Kiev's main export route.

Ukraine is hosting an international summit aimed at boosting the Eastern European country's grain exports to ensure food security.

The Black Sea Grain Agreement brokered by the United Nations and Türkiye last year allows for the safe export of grain and other food from Ukrainian Black Sea ports.

Russia suspended its participation in the deal in July, saying the deal's provisions on Russian food and fertilizer exports were not being implemented.

Russia has declared its readiness to return to the agreement as soon as the remaining parties fully comply with their commitments to Russia.

In August, Ukraine announced the creation of a “humanitarian corridor” along its western Black Sea coast, near Romania and Bulgaria, to clear the way for cargo ships stranded in its ports.

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