Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan intends to hold telephone conversations with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, January 4.
Turkey’s Anadolu news agency quoted Erdogan’s spokesman, Ibrahim Kalın, as saying, “Turkish President Erdoğan will hold a telephone conversation with his Russian and Ukrainian counterparts on Wednesday.”
Recession will affect one third of the world economy in 2023, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Kristalina Georgieva has predicted.
This year will be tougher on the world economy than the one we left behind, she warned.
“Why? Because the three major economies — the U.S., the EU and China — are slowing down at the same time,” the IMF chief said in an interview broadcast Sunday on CBS. – “We expect one-third of the world economy to be in recession.
Even in countries whose economies won’t decline, “hundreds of millions of people will feel it as a recession,” she added.
While the U.S. may eventually avoid a recession, the situation looks bleaker in Europe, which has been hit hard by Russia’s war against Ukraine, Georgieva said. “Half of the European Union will be in recession,” she noted.
“For the first time in 40 years, China’s growth in 2022 is likely to be at or below global growth,” Georgieva said. – Before the COVID-19 pandemic, China accounted for 35-40% of global growth. It won’t be like that anymore.”
These are “pretty stressful” times for Asian economies, she said.
“When I talk to Asian leaders, they all start with the question: what will happen to China? Will China return to a higher growth rate?” she said.
Georgieva expects China to gradually move to a “higher economic performance and end the year with better results” than it began.
The IMF predicts that global GDP will increase by 2.7% this year after growing 3.2% in 2022.
In Ukraine during last two weeks, 19-31 December, 5.39 thousand deals with agricultural land lots have been concluded, which is 1.9 times more than during the previous period of 5-19 December, while the area of sold land lots has doubled – up to 11.04 thousand hectares.
As reported on the website of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food on Tuesday, during the period from July 1, 2021 to December 31, 2022, in which the land market operates in the country, a total of 142.94 thousand transactions for land lots with a total area of 322.19 thousand hectares were conducted.
According to the Ministry, in the period from 19-31 December daily on average there were 385 transactions with agricultural land with a total area of 0,79 thousand hectares / day, while on 5-19 December these figures were 203 transactions on 0,39 thousand hectares / day, and for November 21 – 5 December – 214 transactions on 0,42 thousand hectares / day respectively.
The specified figure is still significantly lower than before the Russian invasion: according to the latest pre-war data of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, during the period from 11 to 18 February in Ukraine daily on average there were 621 land deals with a total area of 1.65 thousand ha.
Kharkiv region is in the lead by the total area of agricultural land sold with an indicator of 39.47 thousand hectares. Dnipropetrovsk region is followed by 28.95 thousand hectares, Poltava region – 26.34 thousand hectares, Kirovograd region – 26.12 thousand hectares and Kherson region – 21.03 thousand hectares.
It is specified that during these two weeks most of all agricultural land was sold in Dnipropetrovsk region (1.25 thousand ha), as well as in Khmelnytskyi (1.19 thousand ha), Vinnitsa (1.07 thousand ha), Poltava (1.05 thousand ha) and Kirovograd regions (805 ha).
According to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, since the beginning of a full-scale Russian invasion in Ukraine, 41.98 thousand hectares of agricultural land transactions with a total area of 77.69 thousand hectares have been concluded. Most of the land was sold in Khmelnytsky, Vinnitsky, Poltava, Kirovograd and Dnipropetrovsk regions during the war.
At that by December 31, 2022, the average price per hectare of agricultural land has increased by 11% compared to December 15 – up to 52.46 thousand UAH/ha from 47.28 thousand UAH/ha.
As it was reported, the market of agricultural land in Ukraine began to work on July 1, 2021. At the first stage of the reform only citizens of the country got the right to buy and sell agricultural land, one individual will be able to hold no more than 100 hectares.
The right to purchase agricultural land from January 1, 2024 will be granted to legal entities created in accordance with the legislation of Ukraine, and the ultimate beneficiary of one or more legal entities will be able to consolidate through them a total of not more than 10 thousand hectares.
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) allowed Timekol LLC (Kyiv) to privatize Borschevsk distillery (Ternopil region), which is a part of state enterprise Ukrspirt, the right to buy for UAH 17.7 million the company won at an online auction in October 2022.
The text of the respective permit No.306-r, dated December 22, 2022, was published on the Committee’s website on Tuesday.
According to the Uniform State Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs, the ultimate beneficiary of Timecool (till November 2020 – Business Star Group LLC) with the registered capital of 25 thousand UAH is Oksana Zakharova (earlier the company was owned by Sergey Afanasiev). This legal entity is engaged in the purchase, sale and lease of real estate, organization of building construction and non-specialized wholesale trade.
This company already has experience in privatization of assets of state enterprise “Ukrspirt” – in November 2021 it won the right to privatize Uladivskyi distillery (Vinnitsa region) for UAH 50,1 mln in an online auction “Prozorro.Selling”.
According to the State Property Fund (SPF), the only property complex Borschevsk distillery consists of 812 buildings, structures, movable and other property, including industrial buildings, bard storage facility, boiler room, distillery, fermentation and carbonic acid plants, pigsty, greenhouses, hangars, warehouses, garages, etc. The facility is equipped with basic technological equipment and the necessary utilities.
The enterprise is located on two plots of land in Borschev with a total area of 7.4 hectares.
Ports of “Big Odessa” on Saturday and Sunday in the framework of the “Grain Initiative” sent 432 thousand tons of agricultural products in a caravan of nine ships to Africa, Asia and Europe, the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine said.
“In particular, bulk carrier Honorine with 27.5 thousand tons of Ukrainian grain for Tunisia and bulk carrier Velvet with 57 thousand tons of wheat for Bangladesh,” the ministry noted.
The Ministry pointed out that 19 ships are being processed in the ports involved in the “grain initiative”, 630 thousand tons of Ukrainian agricultural products are being loaded on them.
At the same time, 94 ships are waiting for their turn to be inspected by the SKZ in the Bosporus (69 ships are empty for loading, and 25 are already loaded with agricultural products).
“The Russian side in the JCC is systematically slowing down inspections. Vessels wait more than a month on average. At the same time, the bulk carrier T-Med with wheat on board has been waiting for inspection since the beginning of November last year,” the Ministry of Infrastructure noted.
According to its information, at least 12 inspections per day are required for uninterrupted movement in the grain corridor.
A total of 620 vessels have left the ports of Greater Odessa since August 1, exporting 16.5 million tons of Ukrainian foodstuffs to Asia, Europe and Africa.
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