On Wednesday, June 29, 2022 at 3:16:33 AM UTC+8, David P. wrote:
> World Leaders Seek Solutions to Food Shortages Caused by Ukraine War
> By Vivian Salama and Bojan Pancevski, June 24, 2022, WSJ
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> Russia and Ukraine together supply almost 1/3 of the world’s wheat, 1/4 of its barley and nearly 3/4 of sunflower oil, according to the Int'l Food Policy Research Institute. The Ukrainian govt expects less than half of this year’s harvest to make it out of the country.
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> G-7 allies are now working to unblock transport bottlenecks or reroute food products, fertilizer and other agricultural products by sea and rail.
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> Moscow has blamed Western sanctions for problems with global food prices and supplies, but a delegation of U.S. officials has been meeting with foreign governments, telling them that those involved in the export of Russian food commodities and fertilizers won’t face sanctions, a senior U.S.. official said.
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> Officials are also seeking solutions to get Ukraine’s growing stockpiles of grain moving again since full silos must be emptied ahead of the harvest. Kyiv has accused Russia of seizing Ukrainian grain, an allegation backed by the U.S. State Dept, which sent cables to several govts in recent weeks urging them against accepting Ukrainian grain allegedly looted by Russia. Moscow denies the accusations.
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> Ukrainian government officials said the country was negotiating with neighbors such as Poland, Romania and Hungary to improve railway links to be able to export more. Some of the grain was being moved by road, they said, but the capacity for that freight was much smaller and more expensive.
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> Most Ukrainian exporters are now using railways to Poland to move their grain and other agricultural products, as well as the Romanian port of Constanta, according to officials and grain producers.
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> A Romanian government official said his country’s ports couldn’t replace the volume of traffic that is being rerouted from Ukrainian ports, due partly to capacity issues and because Romania had its own grain to export.
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> Poland has doubled the transit capacity at its border crossings with Ukraine to increase the flow of grain, according to Michal Dworczyk, chief of staff to the Polish PM.
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> Cary Fowler, the U.S. special envoy for global food security, said the crisis “that we’re experiencing now is not one that is going to go away in the next few weeks [or] months.”
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> https://www.wsj.com/articles/world-leaders-seek-solutions-to-food-shortages-caused-by-ukraine-war-11656078747

When comes to EU and US and UK in sending and selling military weapons shipped to Ukraine, it was okay to them. Nut other business shipping normal products to Russia are considered not okay and is deemed as violation of US sanctions on Russia.

Why is that there are double standard of arguments by US on their own military weapons shipped to Ukraine and not for other countries to ship similar weapons to Russia?. That is why US is ruining their own reputation and now no countries in the world really respect what US is doing. They wont bother to attend and listen their rhetoric to them, too.