United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv to discuss extending the Black Sea export of grains deal.
"The Secretary-General has just arrived in Poland on his way to Ukraine," the U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Tuesday.
He added that Guterres will discuss the continuation of the deal in all its aspects and other pertinent issues on Wednesday.
The 120-day deal, initially brokered by the U.N. and Turkey in July last year and extended in November, will be renewed on March 18 if no party objects.
However, Russia has signaled that obstacles to its agricultural exports must be removed before it lets Ukraine's Black Sea grain deal continue.
To help convince Russia to allow Ukraine to resume Black Sea grain exports in July last year, a three-year deal was also struck in which the U.N. agreed to facilitate Russian food and fertilizer exports.
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