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Moscow is actively cooperating with the UN to unblock the export of Russian fertilizers, grains, and other products, without resolving this issue, the problem of food security cannot be solved, Director of the Department of International Organizations of the Russian Foreign Ministry Pyotr Ilyichev said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

UN Secretary General António Guterres arrived in Lviv on Wednesday, where he will take part in a trilateral meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky and Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan. On Friday, the Secretary General is expected to visit Odessa, and the next day he will visit the Joint Coordination Center in Istanbul, formed as part of a food deal.

"With regard to the fulfillment by the UN of its obligations to normalize the supply of Russian food, fertilizers and raw materials for their production to world markets, I would like to note the following: we are actively cooperating with the UN Secretariat. It, in turn, is conducting targeted work with Washington, Brussels and private foreign companies. The whole world, primarily developing countries, is interested in stabilizing international food markets," Ilyichev said.

He noted that until those artificial illegitimate obstacles of the West that Russian companies face in carrying out foreign economic activity are eliminated, it is hardly possible to restore the normal functioning of supply chains and solve other problems related to ensuring food security.

"So far, the efforts of the UN have not led to the desired result, but the work continues. We count on success," the diplomat said.

In Istanbul on July 22, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu signed two related documents to address the problems of supplying food and fertilizer to world markets. Documents are a single package. The first one, the memorandum, assumes the obligation of the UN to remove various restrictions on the export of Russian agricultural products and fertilizers to world markets. The second defines the algorithm for the export of Ukrainian agricultural products from the Black Sea ports controlled by Ukraine. The second document is based on the algorithm proposed by Russia, according to which a maritime humanitarian corridor is created for the safe exit of commercial ships from the Black Sea ports controlled by Ukraine and back.