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• Food prices have gone up as supplies are stuck in Ukraine, the group said
Top diplomats from the G7 group discussed the impact on food prices amid Ukraine’s invasion of Russia as they met in Germany on Friday for a three-day meeting.
The group said that food crops are stuck in Ukraine, a major agricultural exporter, which has resulted in their price hike globally.
“Twenty-five million tons (27.5 million U.S. tons) of grain are currently blocked in Ukrainian ports, particularly Odesa,” German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said, reported AP.
“Grain that’s food for millions of people around the world, and which is needed particularly urgently in African countries and the Middle East.”
“That’s why we are discussing how the grain blockade exerted by Russia can be unblocked, how we can get the grain out to the world,” she added.
The foreign ministers of Ukraine and neighboring Moldova were also invited to attend the meeting.
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