Don’t blame us for the global food security crisis, Russia tells world
By Ateet Sharma
New Delhi, May 7: As the chorus grows louder on the devastating consequences of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict on global food security, Moscow has alleged that the “collective West” is trying to accuse it of provoking food shortages and labelling its ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine as the root cause of the crisis.
Emphasising that the topic of ensuring food security in the conditions of turbulence in the world economy has already become the “subject of discussions at international platforms”, Russia said that it won’t “shy away” from a substantive discussion on the issue.
“Indeed, a crisis situation is developing in the world market of agro-industrial goods. The reasons for it are much deeper than they seem at first glance – they are associated primarily with miscalculations and accumulated systematic errors in the macroeconomic, financial, trade, and energy policies of Western countries,” said Alexei…
