POPE’S MOSCOW VISIT: NO CONTACT YET BETWEEN RUSSIA AND VATICAN SAYS KREMLIN

Wed 06 July 2022:

There have been no concrete discussions regarding Pope Francis’ visit to Moscow between Russia and the Vatican to date, Kremlin said on Wednesday,

“The visit at the highest level should be worked out, and preparations should precede. So far, as far as I know, there have been no substantive contacts in this regard,” the Kremlin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at a press briefing in Moscow, commenting on the pontiff’s desire to visit Moscow “as soon as possible” after his trip to Canada.

Peskov said that despite great demand, the Russian grain‘s entry into global markets faces many obstacles due to the EU‘s “illegal sanctions.”

About the talks being carried out with Türkiye‘s mediation on creating corridors for the export of Ukraine‘s grain, Peskov said the Defense Ministry made a relevant statement about the issue on Tuesday.

According to Sergey Shoygu, the Russian defense minister, the Russian side has established two humanitarian corridors for the transit of civilian vessels, and the risk posed by mines in the port of Mariupol’s water has been entirely eradicated.

On Tuesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoan announced his plans to further up negotiations with Russia and Ukraine in order to establish a grain corridor for the export of agricultural goods from Ukrainian ports.

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