Official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova. File photoMOSCOW, June 8In resolving the issue of global food security, the hypocrisy of the West and its desire to attribute its inefficiency to Russia are manifested, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. «, based on humanitarian considerations, is interested in Ukraine being able to provide itself with grain, including for sowing. But what does the West do? It exports grain by trucks, leaving the Ukrainian population unable to cope with the coming deficit,» Zakharova wrote in your Telegram channel.
The Kremlin said that the global food crisis has already begun. According to her, «The West, by its actions, undermines food security not only in Africa, but also in Ukraine itself.» The diplomat described in detail what, in her opinion, the food crisis is actually connected with. against the Russian Federation dealt a serious blow to the global economy, which was just beginning to gradually recover from the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.They led to the disruption of established supply chains and supply chains, disrupted the financial settlement system of our economic operators.We have a commodity — our grain , the buyer has the money and the desire to purchase it. But the sanctions simply do not allow this to be done. Neither physically — to transport the grain, nor financially — to pay for it, «the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs emphasized.
The West is trying to keep the «grain issue» as an irritant, Lavrov said. She noted that Russia is conscientiously fulfilling its obligations under international contracts. «And yet, despite the objective difficulties of a transport and logistics nature, we remain a conscientious participant in the world market. We fulfill and will fulfill our obligations under international contracts in terms of export deliveries of grain, fertilizers, energy carriers and other critical products,» Zakharova wrote. the vaunted expert potential, the intellectual resource of our colleagues in Europe and America has shifted towards propaganda. Not to say that it turns out exquisitely, but colossal energy is spent on the ideological indoctrination of its own population, persuading it to be «the fault of the Russians.» And all other areas are forgotten, including work over the economy and infrastructures oh,» concluded the diplomat.
