Zelenskyy urges world to stop aggression that disrupts international food market

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on the world for greater determination and cooperation to stop the aggressive actions that are disrupting the international food market.

Source: Zelenskyy in his address to the participants of the Conference of Ministers of Agriculture in Berlin

Quote:"Just now, when the discussions in this forum are ongoing, more than a hundred ships that are carrying food are standing in a queue near the Bosphorus [Strait – ed.]. Why? Because they have to undergo an inspection, and the Russian representatives in Turkey are blocking this inspection. The ships are detained for weeks.

For Europe, this means rising prices. For Asia, this means a growing threat of social instability. For Africa, for countries like Ethiopia or Sudan, this means empty tables for thousands and thousands of families...

This means that the world needs more determination and more cooperation to stop the aggressive actions that are disrupting the food market. To stop any nation that blockades the sea and destroys food supply chains. To bring to justice any tyrant who tries to make famine an instrument of his policy."

Details: The President said that before the full-scale invasion of Russia, Ukraine exported 6.5 million tons of food every month. Due to Russian aggression and Russia's actions to block Ukrainian food exports, the supply has halved.

"If you count it not in tons, but in lives, then this is at least 200 million people in different countries on 3 continents: in Africa, Asia and Europe, for whom access to food has dwindled," he said.

Zelenskyy called on countries to join the Grain from Ukraine initiative and the initiative to create food hubs in African countries, as well as to implement the Ukrainian peace formula.

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