MADRID, 4 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has promised this Friday to send cereals and fertilizers to some of the least developed countries in the world, especially in Africa, within the framework of the agreement for the departure of ships from Ukrainian ports.
“We will make sure that grain ships reach all countries in need, starting with Somalia, Djibouti and Sudan, which are experiencing problems due to a serious food crisis and famine,” he detailed.
Thus, Erdogan has revealed that in a conversation with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, he expressed the need to “send duty-free grain” to these countries. “In this matter we are on the same page,” he said, as reported by the Turkish state news agency, Anatolia.
The Turkish president has also charged against the mentality of perceiving Europe as “a garden” while the rest of the world is “a jungle”, in an apparent reference to the declarations in this sense by the High Representative of the European Union for Political Outside, Josep Borrell.
“We do not expect those who carry out colonialism using new ways and methods to adopt a conscientious posture in the face of crises,” Erdogan settled, after Borrell stated in October that “most of the rest of the world is a jungle, and the jungle could invade the garden”, statements for which he later apologized.
The words of the Turkish president have come two days after Moscow agreed to reactivate the agreement reached in July for the departure of ships loaded with grain from Ukrainian ports, within the framework of the invasion unleashed in February by order of Putin.
The United Nations and Turkey acted as mediators before said signing in July and also during the implementation of the signed commitments. For his part, Erdogan has undertaken a new round of contacts with the parties to try to reach an agreement with a view to an extension of this measure.
