UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterreswarned today (Friday) that if there is not enough export of grain from Ukraine during the coming year, there may be a global food shortage as early as 2023. He also explained that “there is still much to be done to ensure full global access to food products produced by grain from Ukraine”.
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“Developing countries need help in purchasing grain and it must be ensured that they can buy things imported from Ukraine that are not subject to sanctions,” added the UN Secretary General, “This is an agreement between two parties locked in a bitter conflict, it is unprecedented in its scope but there is still a long way to go to resolve this “.
As you may recall, a month ago Ukraine and Russia signed agreements to resume the export of wheat through the Black Sea, when the deal was designed to ensure the safe passage of Russian-made fertilizer products and they hoped to reach pre-war export levels from the three Ukrainian ports – a rate of five million tons of grain per month. However, a day after the signing of the agreement, the Russian army bombed targets in the port of Odessa and caused the disconnection of the agreement that had been drawn up.