“Sanctions have nothing to do with it”: Blinken placed all the blame on the Russian Federation for the global food crisis
The United States cannot remove Ukrainian grain from the port of Odessa due to “Russian aggression”, but is looking for another opportunity to deliver it to international markets.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated this at a press conference in Washington, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Just a couple of years ago, about 2 billion people lived in conditions of food insecurity, now this figure has increased by another 40 million people who will experience these problems as a result of Russian aggression. What is happening is now 20-25 million tons of grain in elevators, storage facilities, in Ukrainian ports, which cannot be taken out of there, because about 45 ships in the Odessa port are full of grain, and we cannot take them out from there due to the Russian blockade of ports .
The UN Secretary General is trying to find a way out of this situation, the war continues. At the same time, we are assessing the possibility of delivering grain from Ukraine via other routes to international food markets,” Blinken said.
He emphasized that US sanctions against the Russian Federation do not in any way affect the transportation of grain from Ukrainian ports.
“Literally 10 days ago we discussed this issue in New York and in particular the issues of the food crisis around the world. Many countries noted that Russian aggression and the fact that it is impossible to export food from Ukraine are largely to blame for this. Therefore, all countries of the world understand that the problems that they face are aggravated by Russia’s aggression, by what Russia is doing.
The sanctions that we applied to Russia are not true; they prevent the export of grain. All of our senior officials around the world are clearly telling other countries and helping them answer their questions: Russia is to blame. Everything now depends on Russia. Other countries should not suffer as a result of their aggression,” Blinken said.
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