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Italy warns Ukraine port blockade could kill ‘millions’
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ROME, 09 June 2022, (TON): Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio warned “millions of people could die of hunger unless Russia unblocked Ukraine’s ports, as he hosted talks among Mediterranean ministers on the food crisis.”
Di Maio said “the next few weeks will be crucial to resolving the situation.”
“I want to say clearly, we expect clear and concrete signals from Russia, because blocking grain exports means holding hostage and condemning to death millions of children, women and men.”
Ships loaded with grain remain blocked in Ukraine, which before Russia’s February invasion was considered a global breadbasket as a leading exporter of corn, wheat and sunflower seeds.
Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib told “the meeting that rises in the price of fuel and other basics were exacerbating the crisis in his country.”
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