Russia considers Africa’s balanced position on the situation in Ukraine

In an article for African media published on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday, the head of diplomacy of the Eurasian country assessed how Africa does not support the intentions of the West to impose its will against sovereign states.

Lavrov stressed that “African partners do not agree with the brazen attempts of the United States and its European subordinates to dictate their will to the whole world and to impose a model of a unipolar world order on the international community.”

He also drew attention to the fact that, despite unprecedented external pressure, African countries did not join the anti-Russian sanctions. “Such an independent line deserves deep respect,” he stressed.

In this sense, he denounced how Western measures imposed on Russia in recent months have exacerbated the difficult situation of the world food market.

“It is known that at the time of the crisis of the Covid-19 epidemic, the collective West, using the currency-issuance mechanism, diverted the flows of basic products and food, which aggravated the situation of developing countries dependent on food imports,” the head of foreign affairs.

In this regard, Lavrov explained that since then the difficult situation of the food market began to take shape.

The Minister had previously denounced that the international community could repeat a thousand times that these punitive measures do not affect anything, but stressed that they significantly impede the supply of Russian agricultural production, which this year amounts to about 37 million tons of grain and next year. It will be about 50 million.

After the start of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine, on February 24, many countries, mostly from the West, activated various batteries of individual and sectoral sanctions with the aim of inflicting as much damage as possible on the economy of the Eurasian state, and thus putting pressure on Moscow to stop hostilities.

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