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Grain exports from Ukraine helping to push prices down -U.N. spokesperson

The Belize-flagged My Meray carrying Ukrainian grain sails in the Bosphorus, in Istanbul, Turkey September 7, 2022. REUTERS/Yoruk Isik

A drop in global wheat prices in August was partly due to grain exports resuming from Ukraine and ensuring food and fertilizer supplies was critical to maintain a downtrend, a U.N. spokesperson for the Black Sea Grain Initiative said on Wednesday.

The spokesperson's comments came after President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he wanted to discuss amending the U.N.-brokered deal as Ukrainian exports were not going to the world's poorest countries as originally intended.

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