Turkey said it would join Russia, Ukraine and the UN Secretary General to sign an agreement to restore cereal exports in the Black Sea today.

Cereal export agreement, extremely important for global food security, will be signed in Istanbul on July 22 under the auspices of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres,

According to Kalin, the parties reached a general agreement on the plan led by the United Nations in negotiations in Istanbul last week.

Turkey did not publish the detailed content of the agreement, but said that the text would be signed at 20:30 at the Dolmabahce Palace, Istanbul.

Turkey, a NATO member country, has good relationships with both Russia and Ukraine, controlling the straits leading to the Black Sea and acts as a mediation on this issue.

In summary, the document that can be signed will bind the parties to ensure the safety operation of the export routes in the Black Sea, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko said on July 21.

Farmers harvest cereals in Odessa, Ukraine on June 22.

Russia has not yet commented, while the United States praised the Turkey as an intermediary and called on Moscow to implement the agreement.

We welcome the announcement of this agreement, but what we focus now is to ask Russia to take responsibility for the agreement and create conditions for Ukrainian cereals to access the world market, spokesperson for the Ministry.

Cereal exports from Ukraine through the Black Sea has been significantly affected by the Moscow - Kiev military conflict, when the two sides blamed each other to spread the blockade of the black sea, causing more than 20 million tons of grains to be trapped.

Ukraine, Russia are major wheat suppliers worldwide and Ukraine is also a significant manufacturer of corn and sunflower oil.

Russia rejected the allegations to seriously make the food crisis, saying that the main reason was from Western sanctions on exporting goods and fertilizers of Moscow and Ukraine.

Tens of millions of tons of cereals are still trapped in Ukraine, causing farmers to pile up when they are about to enter a new harvest.

The UN promotes the liberation agreement of 25 million tons of food from Ukraine, but the lack of confidence among the parties makes the negotiation process deadlock.