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Kyiv's economic delegation and stalled summit diplomacy
Summary
A look back at the diplomatic and economic signals around Ukraine on 16 April 2022, drawn from reports of the preceding days.
What was Ukraine preparing to say to the world's financial institutions as of 16 April 2022? Reports from the days before that date pointed to a push on economic and diplomatic fronts alongside the war.
On 15 April 2022, Ukraine announced that it would send senior officials to Washington for the meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank the following week. The delegation was to include Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko and the head of the National Bank, Kyrylo Shevchenko. Discussions at the meeting were expected to centre on the Russian invasion and its effect on the global economy.
Talks and a possible summit
On the diplomatic track, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on 14 April 2022 that Turkey was still working on organising a potential meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin. No such meeting had been arranged at that point.
Wheat and the wider effects
The invasion's reach beyond Ukraine's borders was also visible in food trade. On 14 April 2022, Egypt's Minister of Agriculture, El Sayed El Quseir, announced that India had approved Egyptian imports of wheat, citing the shortage caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Taken together, the reports show Kyiv seeking a hearing in international financial forums, Ankara still trying to broker a leaders' meeting, and the war's consequences for grain supply already shaping trade decisions elsewhere.
