The ministers of 40 countries will try this Friday to find “solutions” for the food crisis caused by the war in Ukraine, during a conference in Berlin.
Called “Unite for world food security”, the meeting will be attended by the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, and will take place before the G7 summit that will take place in Bavaria (in southern Germany) from Sunday.
The conference seeks to “propose solutions” such as accelerating food exports from Ukraine through alternative routes to the Black Sea, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock told reporters before the debates began.
There will also be a possible increase in aid for the most affected countries, but the event was not presented as a donor conference.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine, which resulted in the blockade of Black Sea ports, caused food prices to skyrocket and contributed to the global rise in inflation.
Baerbock accused Russia of using hunger “deliberately as a weapon of war” and of having taken “the whole world hostage”.
Russia, meanwhile, denies having blocked the passage of freighters and accuses the sanctions imposed by Westerners of having aggravated the food crisis.
According to the German minister, “alternative ways” are being studied to export food from Ukraine, including Romania, “because river navigation can be intensified there.”
