USAID calls for 'public condemnation' of Russia's withdrawal from grain deal
The head of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Samantha Power, tells a press conference in Kyiv that "countries and leaders near and far should publicly condemn" Russia's decision to withdraw from the grain export deal negotiated last summer. "The aim was to transport food from Ukraine to the rest of the world", where "economies are dependent on Ukrainian wheat imports", she says.
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00:00 I think countries and leaders near and far should be condemning publicly the decision
00:10 to withdraw from an initiative that was all about getting food out of Ukraine to the rest
00:19 of the world.
00:22 Two-thirds of the wheat that came out of the Black Sea Grain Initiative export channel
00:29 went to developing countries.
00:33 That is an enormous amount of wheat, and I saw firsthand in places like Somalia, Kenya,
00:40 and Lebanon over the course of the last year just how dependent those economies are on
00:47 the import of Ukrainian wheat.
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