Turkey, Russia To Talk June 8 on Sea Corridors for Ukrainian Agricultural Exports

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said this morning that Sergei Lavrov, his Russian counterpart, will come to Turkey with a military delegation on June 8 to discuss creating a potential sea corridor for Ukrainian agricultural exports, reported Reuters. Cavusoglu said work was still underway with the United Nations to reach an agreement on creating the corridor from the Black Sea, but that issues between Moscow and Kyiv remained. He said the U.N. had proposed forming a joint observation mechanism to monitor the shipping route, and that Turkey was open to the idea.