Moscow: We are implementing our commitments regarding food supplies and aid to developing countries

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The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed that Moscow is implementing its commitments regarding food supplies and sending food aid to developing countries.

"For its part, Russia, even under the current conditions, continues to fulfill its obligations under commercial contracts and sends food aid to people in need in developing countries," a statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry said, quoted by TASS.

She added that since "February 24, more than 6,000 tons of Russian foodstuffs have been supplied to Lebanon, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Yemen, Sudan and Cuba through the World Food Program and 20 tons of wheat to Sudan and Cuba through bilateral channels."

The ministry indicated that the accusations about Russia causing the food crisis that were leveled at the Russians during a session of the UN Security Council on the 19th of this month are "false," noting that the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, "linked the special military operation in Ukraine directly to the problems in the distribution of food in the world."

The Russian Foreign Ministry indicated that Russia's representative to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzia, drew the attention of the UN Security Council to "the structural problems in the global economy that emerged long before the Russian military operation in Ukraine and led to the current situation in the world food market."

The Russian Foreign Ministry was surprised by the “repeated calls to establish new humanitarian coordination mechanisms with the involvement of a large number of participants to settle the issue of the blockade of Ukrainian ports,” accusing Ukraine of laying mines in the waters of the Black Sea near the ports of Odessa, Nikolaev, Kherson and others.