Indonesia will again receive grain exports from Ukraine. To Jokowi, Zelenskyy Tells

 

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Indonesia will again receive grain exports from Ukraine. To Jokowi, Zelenskyy Tells

Java. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, recently informed Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, the president of Indonesia, that Ukraine intended to resume grain shipments to the nation in Southeast Asia. 

Zelenskyy discussed certain facts of his conversation with Jokowi over the phone on the social media platform X on Thursday. Agenda items included global food security and the announcement by Ukraine to resume grain exports to Indonesia.

Zelenskyy posted on social media platform X, "I spoke with Indonesian President @jokowi about the Peace Formula, global food security, and the Middle East."

Despite Russian attempts to restrict freedom of passage in the Black Sea, Ukraine, a global guarantor of food security, continues to export grain via alternate channels. Zelenskyy declared, "We are prepared to start exporting to Indonesia again.

Additionally, Kiev made an effort to persuade Jakarta to support the fictitious "Grain from Ukraine" campaign.

As the name implies, the programme involves sending Ukrainian grain to nations in Asia and Africa who are struggling with severe famine and malnutrition. Both private sector contributors and partner nations are involved in the programme. As to the June report by the Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Ministry, several nations, including as the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, had committed to providing approximately $200 million in support for the endeavour. 

In addition to inviting Jokowi to the pertinent summit in November, Zelenskyy stated, "I invited Indonesia to join our "Grain From Ukraine" humanitarian programme."

When both leaders attended the G7 Summit in Hiroshima earlier this year, Jokowi had his first face-to-face meeting with Zelenskyy. According to data from the National Statistics Agency (BPS), Indonesia's top supplier of wheat and meslin in 2020 was Ukraine. However, after Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February of last year, imports from that country fell precipitously in 2022. 

Last year, Russia consented to the Black Sea Grain Initiative, an agreement supported by the UN that allowed for the export of grains and other agricultural products from Odesa, Chornomorsk, and Pivdennyi (Yuzhny), three important Ukrainian ports. But when Russia withdrew from the agreement in July, the endeavour came to an end. Ukraine was forced to search for other routes as a result.

Source Jakarta Global