US, Canada see growing interest in limited ceasefire in Black Sea

US Secretary of State Marco
Rubio on Saturday said there was growing interest by the
international community in facilitating a limited ceasefire in
the Black Sea to ensure unfettered energy and grain shipments by
Russia and Ukraine.
Rubio told a news conference that the US is reviewing
proposals by Turkey and India to get grain shipments moving,
even as the US continues to press for a broader, negotiated
settlement of the war, which is now in its fifth year.
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine took center stage at
a two-day meeting of foreign ministers from the Group of 20, in
part due to the participation of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei
Lavrov over the objections of European and Canadian leaders, who