Ukrainian Foreign Ministry sees no grounds for extending EU ban on imports of Ukrainian agricultural products

MOSCOW. Sept 14 (Interfax) - There are no grounds for the European Commission to extend the ban on imports of Ukrainian grain to European Union member states, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko has said.

"The European Commission's ban on imports of Ukrainian grain to the EU ends tomorrow, September 15. There are no grounds for extending this decision," Ukrainian media quoted him as saying.

"Ukraine and the EU have created a common coordination platform, as part of which they have worked on all reservations on the part of a number of European countries [...]. The export of Ukrainian agricultural products is not the reason of destabilizing the European market. Despite the European Commission's ban and the long absence of Ukrainian grain imports, the problems of farmers in Slovakia, Poland, Romania and Hungary have not been resolved," Nikolenko said on social media.

The governments of these countries should focus on finding domestic solutions, "and definitely not by introducing restrictions for Ukraine," he said. "Brussels has a number of support tools for this," Nikolenko added.