US-Russian verbal tensions in Security Council over global food crisis.
At the UN Security Council meeting, the US Secretary of State accused Russia of taking world food security hostage to put pressure on Ukraine, calling Russia completely wrong in response to Washington’s claims.
In a statement, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken accused Russia of using food as a weapon and taking hostage the grains of millions of people around the world in order to bring Ukraine to its knees.
According to the Associated Press, he claimed at a meeting of the Security Council at the request of Washington: “The war of trade and maritime transport in a large area of the Black Sea has stopped and made navigation in the region unsafe, Ukraine’s agricultural exports blocked.” Has eroded and endangered the world’s food supply chain.
“This happened at a time when world hunger was already exacerbated by climate change and Covid-19 disease, and now it is getting worse,” he said, who chaired the meeting.
The US Secretary of State, whose country has imposed severe sanctions on Russia’s transport fleet, has claimed that since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the country has tried to control access to the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov and block Ukrainian ports. Considers a deliberate attempt to prevent maritime transit and shipping.
“As a result of the Russian government’s actions, some 20 million tonnes of grain have been left unused in Ukrainian silos, reducing global food supply and soaring prices, leaving more people around the world with food insecurity,” Blinken said. They will be.”
“In response to Blinken’s claims at the summit, Russia’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzyam, reiterated the claims of the United States and the West that we want to starve everyone and that only you and Ukraine care about saving the world. Rejected and read it completely incorrectly.
Earlier, Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, had reacted to Western claims about Russia’s global operations and global food security by saying that foolish moves by Western macroeconomics had undermined global food security. Russian special military operation has begun in Ukraine.
