MOSCOW: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, asked about the possibility of extending the Black Sea grain deal, said: \u201cHow can you extend something that doesn\u2019t work?,\u201d Interfax reported on Friday.
\nHe said, however, that Russia would continue to deliver grain to developing countries even if the deal, due to expire on July 17, was not renewed, RIA news agency said.
\nAnother agency, TASS, quoted Lavrov as saying that an explosion that damaged an ammonia pipeline between Russia and Ukraine was evidence that someone wanted to wreck the grain deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MOSCOW: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, asked about the possibility of extending the Black Sea grain deal, said: \u201cHow can you extend something that doesn\u2019t work?,\u201d Interfax reported on Friday. He said, however, that Russia would continue to deliver grain to developing countries even if the deal, due to expire on July 17, was not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-338114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n