U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday he was hopeful of easing the food crisis prompted by the Ukraine crisis, but cautioned that any agreement to unblock shipments of commodities such as grain was still some way off.
"I think that there is progress, but we are not yet there. These are complex things and the fact that everything is interlinked makes the negotiation particularly complex," Guterres told a news conference with Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson in Stockholm.
"As I said to the security council, I'm hopeful, but there is still a ways to go and we are totally committed to make things happen," he said.
