Biden assured that sanctions do not interfere with food exports from Russia

One of the topics that the US Presidenttouched upon in his speech at the UN General Assembly, there was a food problem. According to him,

US President Joe Biden , speaking from the podium at the 77th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, said that Western sanctions do not prevent RUSSIA from exporting food.

Biden accused Moscow of trying to explain the origin of the food crisis by the sanctions that Western countries have imposed on it.

“Let me be absolutely clear: our sanctions make it absolutely clear that Russia is able to EXPORT food and fertilizer. No restrictions,” Biden said.

The US President also added that the deal on the export of Ukrainian grain from the Black Sea ports should be extended, and called on all countries not to restrict exports and not create excessive stocks of grain.

“We need to ensure its extension <...>. We call on all countries to refrain from banning food exports and grain storage,” he said.

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In addition, Biden announced that the United States is allocating $2.9 billion to maintain world food security.

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“Today, I am announcing another $2.9 billion for humanitarian and food security this year,” Biden said. He noted that now about 193 million people in the world are experiencing serious problems with access to food and "war worsens the situation." “Only Russia can finish this,” the US President is sure .

The grain deal agreement was signed on July 22. The parties pledged to create a safe corridor for the export of grain from the Ukrainian ports of Odessa, Chernomorsk and Yuzhny along the Black Sea. Representatives of Turkey and the UN have been entrusted with monitoring the loading, and representatives of the quadripartite coordination center have been instructed to check ships at the entrance and exit from the harbors.

The agreement was concluded for three months with the possibility of extension. On September 20, the Turkish Foreign Ministry announced work on the extension.

At the same time, Moscow has repeatedly stated that the agreement on grain is of a package nature and the implementation of its second part is mandatory. To fully implement the agreement, Western countries need to ensure the access of Russian food and fertilizers to world markets, “that is, to remove the financial and logistical obstacles caused by the anti-Russian restrictions they have imposed,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in August.

The UN predicted mass starvation due to the food crisis Society

On September 16, President Vladimir Putin , during a meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), said that Russia could transfer fertilizers that are in the ports of the European Union to developing countries.

“300 thousand tons of Russian fertilizers have accumulated in the seaports of the European Union, we are ready to transfer them to developing countries free of charge,” Putin said. He added that he passed this information on to UN Secretary General António Guterres.

The President noted that Russia welcomes the lifting of sanctions on Russian fertilizers. However, the waiver of restrictions affected only the member states of the European Union, that is, only they can purchase Russian fertilizers, Putin said. “What about the developing, poorest countries in the world?” - he asked.

“Taking advantage of the presence of the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, I ask <...> to influence the decision of the European Commission, and not in words, but in deeds, to demand from them, colleagues in the European Commission, that they remove these restrictions, which are obviously discriminatory,” the President of Russia said.