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“The UN Secretariat at the Joint Coordination Centre reports that the Ukrainian, Turkish and United Nations delegations agreed not to plan any movement of vessels in the Black Sea Grain Initiative for tomorrow 2 November,” said a UN Spokesperson. UNIFEED

Alfred Kammer, Director of the IMF’s European Department held a press conference to address questions about Europe’s economy, including the fallout following the launch of Russia’s war on Ukraine. IMF

Sea Grain Initiative has allowed around 5 ½ million tons of grain and other foodstuffs to move from three key Ukrainian ports to their final destinations worldwide. For farmers like Volodymyr Varbanets, the initiative has been crucial in taking his harvest to global markets and making plans for his work in 2023. OCHA

Pressing Iraq’s leaders, ‘all of them’, to pull country back from ledge, mission head tells Security Council absence of functioning government hard to justify.

UN humanitarians said on Friday that at its 2-month mark, around 5 ½ million tons of grain and other foodstuffs were moved under the Black Sea Grain Initiative on about 255 ships from three key Ukrainian ports to their final destinations worldwide. UNTV CH

The President of Türkiye, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said that the agreement on the resumption of Ukrainian grain exports via the Black Sea “is one of the greatest achievements of the United Nations in recent decades.” UNIFEED.

Secretary-General António Guterres visited on Saturday (20 Aug) in Istanbul, Türkiye, the World Food Programme (WFP) ship Brave Commander and the SSI Invincible 2, which is heading to Ukraine to pick-up the largest cargo of grain yet exported under the Black Sea Grain Initiative. OCHA

A United Nations spokesperson announced that at the invitation of President Volodymyr Zelinskyy of Ukraine, Secretary-General António Guterres will be in Lviv on Thursday to attend a trilateral meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkïye and the Ukrainian leader. UNIFEED

The first humanitarian cargo ship carrying 23,000 tons of wheat is preparing to leave from Ukraine’s port of Odesa port. This shipment is the first of “we hope, many shipments to come to countries that are suffering great difficulties. There are at least five who are already in famine-like conditions and another 20 that are on what we call the watchlist for famine,” a UN humanitarian official said. OCHA

Frederick Kenney, interim Coordinator for the UN at the Joint Coordination Centre for the Black Sea Initiative, said, “We are off with a very good start.” UNIFEED