UNITED NATIONS, March 28. /TASS/. The West’s illegal sanctions are provoking a global food crisis, Anna Yevstigneyeva, Russia’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, said on Monday.
"We took notice of the speeches by several Security Council members and of the Western countries’ statements in the Sudanese mass media on March 21, were they blamed Russia for the global economic instability, price hikes, especially on energy sources and food, including in Sudan," she said at a United Nations Security Council meeting. "Don’t be mistaken: a possible food crisis is provoked not by Russia’s special operation in Ukraine but by the West’s illegal unilateral sanctions, which have severed logistics and financial chains and cut Russia, a food and fertilizers manufactures, off the SWIFT system, and are threatening with mass arrests of freight ships."
"Restrictions have covered even our cooperation with the United Nations humanitarian agencies," she noted. "We can’t see who can be misled by your statements - not the Sudanese, who have the experience of being under unilateral sanctions and who are now being blackmailed by economic assistance."
Russia calls on countries "which are currently living through economic hardships, with some of which being created deliberately, not to fall for anti-Russian slogans but to look at the current situation through the prism of their vital interests," she stressed.