Moscow Gives UN 90 Days to Meet Conditions for Reactivating Grain Deal

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov holds a press conference at U.N. headquarters in New York on April 25, 2023. Mike Segar/Reuters

Moscow has given the U.N. Secretariat-General three months to meet its conditions for reactivating a year-old agreement that had allowed Ukraine to export grain through the Black Sea.

“The U.N. has three months to achieve concrete results,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on July 19.