MOSCOW, October 20. /TASS/. Russia is ready to supply everything necessary to the world market to eliminate the threat of food security, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told a briefing on Thursday.
"We are ready to supply both food and fertilizer, and everything else necessary to ensure that the food security of the world is not threatened. We are very much prevented from doing that presently," she said.
Zakharova pointed out that "the United States is dealing a blow to this very global food security, by blocking as many opportunities as possible for making financial settlements on products of the Russian Federation."
She stressed that Washington is doing everything to block the ability of one of the largest suppliers of agricultural products to supply them to the world’s food markets.
"This is not just blocking financial transactions, this is the persecution of all those operators and companies who work with our country, and those who participate in the market and have every reason to make transactions, but they are being persecuted by the United States. They are being persecuted in different ways: they are blackmailed, their activities are blocked by any means," the official representative of the Foreign Ministry explained.