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Images of the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin leaving a UN building following talks on renewing the Ukraine grain export deal. Russia has agreed to renew the accord but only for another 60 days. IMAGES
The EU's foreign policy chief says he is hopeful the Iran nuclear deal could be revived after receiving "reasonable" responses to his proposed text from Iran and the United States. "I am hoping that in the coming days we are not going to lose this momentum and we can close the deal" says Josep Borrell, at an informal meeing of EU foreign ministers in Prague. SOUNDBITE
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu meets with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in Istanbul ahead of grain talks where a UN-backed deal to resume grain shipments across the Black Sea for the first time since the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine in February is expected to be signed by Russia, Ukraine and Turkey. IMAGES
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky meets French Foreign Affairs Minister Catherine Colonna in Kyiv. Colonna is the highest-ranking French official to visit Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion on February 24. IMAGES
The United States urges Moscow and Tehran to take the "decisions" needed to revive the 2015 nuclear accord, putting the ball squarely in their camp as last-minute Russian demands threatened to derail the process. "We remain confident that we can achieve mutual return to compliance in fairly short order" if decisions are "made in places like Tehran and Moscow," State Department spokesperson Ned Price tells reporters during a briefing after the European Union announced a pause in negotiations. SOUNDBITE
Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov meets his Polish counterpart Zbigniew Rau in Moscow amid an tensions between Russia and Western countries over Ukraine. Russia said it was pulling back some of its forces near the Ukrainian border to their bases, in what would be the first major step towards de-escalation in weeks of crisis with the West. IMAGES
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