China News Agency, Moscow, September 9 (Reporter Tian Bing) Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the Russian Federation Security Conference on the 9th that by the end of this year, Russia will supply 30 million tons of grain to the international market and is ready to increase this amount to 50 million tons or more.

　　According to the Kremlin website, Putin said that from May to August this year, Russia supplied 6.6 million tons of wheat, barley, corn and other grains to the international market, of which 6.3 million tons were shipped to Asian, African and Latin American countries. .

By the end of this year, Russia is expected to supply 30 million tons of grain to the outside world. Given the bumper grain harvest, Russia plans to increase this amount to 50 million tons or more.

　　Putin pointed out that the grain export agreement, including Ukrainian grain, was completed through the mediation of Turkey and the United Nations.

However, according to the Russian records, only two ships with 60,000 tons of grain left the Ukrainian port to send to Yemen and Djibouti, the poorest countries under the UN food program, accounting for only 3%.

Russia believes that it is right to increase food supplies to the poorest countries.

He asked the Russian Foreign Ministry to consider this issue in its contacts with the United Nations and related countries.

　　Regarding the export of chemical fertilizers, Putin said that in the past four months, Russia has supplied 7 million tons of chemical fertilizers to other countries, including potash fertilizers, nitrogen fertilizers, compound fertilizers, mixed fertilizers, etc., of which about 3 million tons are also shipped to countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Russia is also preparing to supply about 2 million tons of synthetic ammonia needed for the production of fertilizers.

　　Putin emphasized that although the EU said it lifted the sanctions on Russia's fertilizer supply, in fact only EU countries can buy Russian fertilizers. forbidden.

Such discriminatory practices are unacceptable.

He has instructed the government's first deputy prime minister, Belousov, to deal with the issue.

　　Putin also said that Russia has a backlog of hundreds of thousands of tons of chemical fertilizers in some ports in European countries, and Russian producers are willing to provide them free of charge to developing countries that are in desperate need, first of all potash fertilizers.

He asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to work on the above-mentioned issues.

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