The European Union and the UN are looking for ways to avoid a food crisis due to events in Ukraine.
Report informs citing Ukrinform that this is stated in the communiqué released after the meeting of French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, French Minister of Agriculture and Food Julien Denormandie and European Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarčič with the Executive Director of the World Food Program David Beasley.
According to the information, the meeting was dedicated to "considering the dramatic consequences of the war in Ukraine regarding food security, especially for developing and the most vulnerable countries in the world."
Ministers, the European Commissioner and the Executive Director of the World Food Program expressed their deep concern at the deteriorating food security in the world. They welcomed the April 8 decision by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on the impact of the war in Ukraine on global food security and call on the international community to make every effort to support the hardest hit countries bearing the disproportionate burden of this crisis.