UN Interim Coordinator qualified the grain export deal as "a very good start"
Frederick J. Kenney Jr., interim Coordinator for the UN at the Joint Coordination Centre commented on the grain export deal signed on July 22 and qualified the deal as "a very good start".
Since the deal 12 vessels, containing over 370,000 metric tons of grains and other food stocks, have been permitted to leave the Ukrainian ports. These vessels had been stranded in the three ports which are Odessa, Chernomorsk, and Yuzhny.