Russia's top diplomat Lavrov was in Cairo for talks Sunday with Egyptian officials as his country seeks to break the diplomatic isolation and sanctions by the West over its invasion of Ukraine.
Russia's top diplomat was in Cairo for talks Sunday with Egyptian officials as his country seeks to break the diplomatic isolation and sanctions by the West over its invasion of Ukraine.
In a joint news conference with Shukry, Lavrov said he discussed Russia's "military operation" in Ukraine with Egyptian officials who urged for "a political and diplomatic" settlement to the conflict."We do not have any prejudices about resuming negotiations on a wider range of issues, but the matter does not depend on us," he said.
Lavrov said in Cairo that Russian grain exporters are committed to fulfilling their obligations in the wake of twin UN-backed deals signed by Moscow and Kyiv to unblock the grain shipments from Ukrainian ports. Some Ukrainian grain is transported through Europe by rail, road and river, but with higher transportation costs. The war has also disrupted shipments of Russian products because shipping and insurance companies are reluctant to deal with Western sanctions on Russia.
Seeking to rally African nations on his country's side, he hailed what he called "an independent path" they took in refraining from joining the West in sanctioning Russia and the "undisguised attempts of the U.S. and their European satellites to gain the upper hand, and to impose a unipolar world order to the international community.
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