“Today, given the urgency of the crisis, we are announcing the allocation of $215 million for new emergency food assistance,” RIA Novosti quotes Blinken’s speech from the rostrum of the UN Security Council.
According to him, Washington expects the allocation of additional large-scale funding by Congress.
Earlier, British diplomat Alastair Crook, in an interview with the host of the Going Underground program on RT, Afshin Rattanzi, spoke about the impact of sanctions against Russia on the global food market.
UN Secretary General António Guterres at a meeting of the UN Security Council announced the need to return to the world markets of products and fertilizers from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.