Moscow: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that the Western and Kyiv to resolve the growing global food crisis provoked by conflicts in Ukraine.Russian attacks in Ukraine and Western sanctions have disrupted the shipment of wheat and other commodities from the two countries, triggering concerns about the risk of hunger throughout the world.
Western countries “created many artificial problems by closing their ports on Russian ships, disrupting logistics and financial chains,” Lavrov told reporters during a visit to Bahrain.”They need to seriously consider what is more important to them: doing homework about food security problems or taking concrete steps to solve this problem,” he added.
Lavrov also asked Ukraine to eliminate its territorial waters to allow safe roads from ships through the Black Sea and Azov.”If the de-mining problem is resolved … Russian Navy forces will ensure the unimbbided part of this ship to the Mediterranean and so on to the destination (them),” Lavrov said.
Russia and Ukraine produced about 30 percent of the global wheat supply.President Vladimir Putin told his colleague Turkish Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday that Moscow was ready to work with Ankara to free maritime shipments from Ukraine and blame the lack of global food on the “short view” Western policy.