Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit New York, where he will meet with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to discuss the Black Sea Grain Initiative, Russian state media reported, citing Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya..

The United States issued visas to Lavrov and the Russian delegation, which will chair the meeting of the UN Security Council in New York. The Russian Ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, made a corresponding appeal to the United States earlier, CNN writes..

The State Department said that, as the host country of the UN, the United States takes seriously its obligations under the relevant UN Headquarters Agreement, in particular with regard to the issuance of visas..

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On Monday, Ukraine accused Moscow of derailing a UN-brokered grain deal to alleviate the war-induced global food crisis, and said inspections of ships in Turkish territorial waters had been blocked for the second time..

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell confirmed that Russia blocked about 50 ships in Turkish waters in the Black Sea with Ukrainian grain.

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Subsequently, Russian state media reported on the resumption of inspections, citing Petr Ilyichev, director of the Department of International Organizations at the Russian Foreign Ministry..

Yesterday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, during a visit to Brazil, said that Moscow is interested in a speedy end to the Ukrainian conflict..