German Foreign Minister: Russia is taking hostages the whole world | News from Germany about Germany | DV
Russia “takes the whole world hostage,” said German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Friday, June 24, ahead of the opening of an international food conference in Berlin. She reiterated that Moscow “deliberately uses hunger as a weapon.” Currently, 345 million people are threatened with hunger, Burbock recalled. Due to its crisis, the food supply is transformed into a “threatening wave”, and the war unleashed in Russia against “turns this wave into a tsunami.”
Russia is trying to blame others for the spike in food prices, but this is Russian fake news – fake news flagged by a German politician. Russia blocks Ukrainian ports, shells granaries, and, in addition, does not take any measures for exports from the Russian Federation.
The goal of the food conference is solidarity with Ukraine and the people in the global south who are embracing the Russian war. “It is necessary to find new solutions to problems, in particular, increasing food exports from Ukraine by land routes and rivers, as well as increasing emergency assistance to the hungry,” Anna Burbock said. According to Berlin, due to being overweight in May, it was possible to pay 1.7 million tons of consumed substances from Ukraine to the world market through alternative ways.
The German government brought together all interested countries for the Berlin conference. According to Burbock, the attendees include ministers from more than 40 states, UN representatives, non-governmental organizations from countries most widely affected by the impact. The conference will take place ahead of the G7 meeting scheduled for June 26-28 in Elmau in southern Germany.
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