PARIS / ROME – A “grain pact” to allow Ukrainian cargo to transit beyond the Russian naval blockade in the Black Sea and avoid the “food tsunami” feared by the United Nations: this is the goal of the diplomatic canvas, in these hours. An ambitious challenge, but hanging by a thread and subject to many unknowns. The role of the United Nations, a possible guarantor of the agreement, ends up at the center of Macron and Scholz’s phone call with Vladimir Putin.
The thin thread of the negotiation UN guarantees and European ships to mine the Black Sea
