Ukraine Gate- Kyiv – May 16, 2022 – Kyiv and Warsaw have agreed to speed up inspections at the Ukrainian-Polish border and simplify exports of Ukrainian agricultural products to the European Union and third countries.
This was stated in a joint statement signed on Monday in Warsaw by Ukrainian Minister of Agricultural and Food Policy Mykola Solsky and Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of Poland Henrik Kowalczyk.
The statement emphasized that the parties assumed that the large-scale Russian aggression against Ukraine broke the traditional logistical chains of agricultural exports, as well as closed the Ukrainian ports through which most agricultural products are shipped. In addition, 400 million people in the world may be left without food if Ukrainian agricultural products are not exported, which will lead to world hunger and further migration crisis.
Thus, it encourages the establishment of reliable transit corridors for agricultural exports to third countries and closer cooperation in agriculture between Ukraine and Poland.
Under the agreements, the Ukrainian side will organize the transportation of goods through the designated border checkpoints of Poland, and the Polish side will review the existing requirements for veterinary control of transit grain shipments from Ukraine and ensure the transit of grain at all checkpoints. on the Polish border.
It is noteworthy that in the first half of May, Poland introduced a round-the-clock system at veterinary border checkpoints. In addition, the parties agreed to increase the number of veterinary inspectors at designated border checkpoints, as well as the possibility of organizing their work around the clock, seven days a week in the most crowded places to facilitate rapid veterinary control of imported and transit goods of plant and animal origin. from Ukraine.
It was emphasized that the two parties would cooperate in solving railway logistics issues of goods of plant and animal origin and ensuring the smooth transportation of agricultural products.
As reported, due to the blockade of Ukrainian seaports, 7 million tons of wheat, 14 million tons of corn kernels, 3 million tons of sunflower oil, 3 million tons of sunflower powder and other crops did not enter the world market. This has already led to a record rise in world market prices and will inevitably lead to a global food crisis and rising inflation.
