Sri Lanka Agent President: Western sanctions will not allow Russia to yield, but will let the Third World countries yield

According to the COLOMBOPAGE on the 17th, the Sri Lanka Agent President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who just took office, said that the political turmoil of Sri Lanka should be blamed on the global grain shortage caused by the Western sanctions on Russia and the West. And fuel crisis.

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It is reported that on the 17th, he participated in the international group discussion of the theme "Preventing Global Hunger and Famine". He also attended the meeting of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly Abdulla Shahid, chairman of the UN General Assembly. And international representatives of various countries.

Vikra Masinger said at the meeting, "The hunger problem in Sri Lanka is for its own reasons, partly due to external incidents. A global crisis and an internal crisis are intertwined, which leads to the estimates in the country. Nutrition. "

Sri Lanka's agent said, "One reason is to prohibit fertilizer, which causes serious consequences. Our country grows 24 million tons of rice each year to achieve self -sufficiency. Now, because the fertilizers cannot be used, the rice output is about 16 million tons. Our three points. One of the needs of one must be met abroad, and the state has no foreign exchange to meet these needs. "He said that his country faces insufficient import funds for fertilizer fertilizer." We need a chemical fertilizer worth $ 600 million, but we now only have $ 300 million ","

He added that due to the collapse of Sri Lanka tourism and small and medium -sized enterprises, the country's economy will shrink 6%this year, which may lead to more unemployment in the coming year. The hunger and fuel crisis on the island have promoted the political turmoil of Sri Lanka. This crisis phenomenon is not limited to Sri Lanka, but requires some kind of "jumping out of the traditional thinking framework" solution.

The acting president said in Russia and Ukraine that the Russian -Ukraine conflict and Western sanctions against Russia were the cause of the global grain and fuel crisis. He pointed out that although the European Union and the United Kingdom do not think so, sanctions on Russia will affect countries like Sri Lanka that cannot supply food independently, sanctions will only push food prices. He questioned whether Western sanctions on Russia were necessary and whether it would really "yield" Russia.

"Sanctions will not allow Russia to yield, but they will give in other countries in the third world," he said.

According to the "Wall Street Journal" previously reported, the Ministry of Finance issued a statement on the 14th that emphasizing Russia -related agricultural products (including chemical fertilizer) and medical products are not the goal of sanctions on Russia. GL), to authorize certain transactions related to Russian agricultural products, agricultural equipment, drugs and medical devices. The statement claims that the United States has not yet exported to Russia or sanctions from Russia.

According to CCTV News, Russian Foreign Minister Raferov said on June 1 that Western sanctions on Russia limited Russia's ability to export their own food and exacerbated the global food crisis. Although Western high -profile stated that the food was not sanctioned, they remained silent about the fact that ships transporting Russian grain were sanctioned. European ports do not accept Russian vessels, and all logistics and financial chains of grain -related Russia to the international market are sanctioned by Western.

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