Sputnik is live from Moscow, where Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov holds talks with Turkish foreign policy chief Hakan Fidan.
One of the central topics of the meeting will be the situation around the grain deal, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing.
"One of the topics of the upcoming Russian-Turkish negotiations at the level of foreign ministers will be the situation around the Istanbul agreements: both the Black Sea initiative on the export of Ukrainian food, terminated on July 17, and the current Russia-UN memorandum on the normalization of domestic agricultural exports," she said at a briefing on Wednesday.
Lavrov and Fidan are also expected to discuss a range of foreign policy issues with the emphasis on the Ukrainian crisis and energy cooperation.
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