Guterres hopes for deal to mitigate impact on food supply due to war in Ukraine

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres today expressed optimism that a solution could be found to mitigate the effects of the global food supply caused by the war in Ukraine, but warned that any agreement was still a long way off.

“I think there is progress, but we have not reached it yet. These are complex issues and the fact that everything is interconnected makes the negotiation very complicated,” he told a news conference with Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Anderson in Stockholm.

With Russia controlling or virtually blocking all Ukrainian Black Sea ports, grain shipments from Ukraine have stalled since the invasion began, with Moscow blaming Western sanctions for halting grain and fertilizer exports.

SOURCE: AMPE

Source: Capital

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