Rubio says US weighs Türkiye proposal for Black Sea grain truce

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington is considering proposals Türkiye delivered one or two weeks ago for a partial ceasefire in the Black Sea to enable the safe export of grain, but declined to give a timeline.

RuskiGazeta Editorial DeskOctober 31, 2026, 10:56 PMUpdated: November 01, 2026, 01:18 AM

Rubio says US weighs Türkiye proposal for Black Sea grain truce

The United States is considering Türkiye’s proposals for a partial ceasefire in the Black Sea that would enable safe grain shipments. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio made the remarks at a press conference during the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting in Atlanta.

“We are looking at proposals that Türkiye gave us a week or two ago, and we will continue to assess them. We would like to achieve this: even if it does not end the entire war, it would at least resolve one aspect of it,” Rubio said.

Госсекретарь США Марко Рубио на пресс-конференции (AA)

Reference to the previous grain deal

Rubio said interest in using the Black Sea to meet global grain needs is growing again and that the issue is not new. “Türkiye consistently pursued this in the past, and at one point an agreement was even reached, but it was later broken up,” he recalled. The secretary of state declined to predict when a new agreement might be reached.

Communication channels with Moscow

Rubio said Washington is continuing talks with both Russia and Ukraine on ending the war. He stressed that, given the risk of escalation, it is important to maintain communication channels between the United States and Russia, and noted Moscow’s large nuclear arsenal.

Президент Украины Владимир Зеленский (AA)

“We speak with the Ukrainians frequently, even more than or at least as much as we do with the Russian side. But we need to be able to speak with the Russians as well,” the secretary of state added.

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