NEW DELHI, September 10. /TASS/. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that he will ask UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to issue another letter to Russia with proposals on the grain deal.

"Earlier, Guterres referred a letter [to the Russian side]. On our part, there will be a request to him to send a second letter that will be an addition to the first one. It will concern insurance matters and SWIFT. And this may give momentum to the issues. We will keep a close eye on this topic," he told a news conference after a Group of Twenty summit in New Dwlhi.

He also noted that he "has not yet lost hope for the resumption of the grain deal."

On September 8, the Bild newspaper said citing Guterres’ confidential letter to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov of August 28 that the United Nations was ready to accept all Russia’s conditions, including concerning the SWIFT system and insuring Russian ships, in order to resume the grain deal.

Commenting on the UN chief’s proposals on the resumption of the grain deal, the Russian foreign ministry said that there was nothing new about these proposals and they cannot be the basis for any progress in the process of normalizing exports of Russian agricultural products.