Germany to host G7 meeting on Ukraine invasion's impact on food security
From left, Italy's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Marina Sereni, German Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development Svenja Schulze, Phillippines Secretary of Foreign Affairs Teodoro L Locsin Jr., Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, Italy's Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, Britain's Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs Melanie Joly, Canada's Minister of International Development Harjit Sajjan, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell and Brunei Darussalam's Minister of Foreign Affairs Dato Erywan Pehin Yusof pose for a 'family' photograph during the G7 summit of foreign and development ministers on the final day of the summit in Liverpool, England, Dec. 12, 2021. AFP-Yonhap
Germany will host a virtual meeting of agricultural ministers from G7 countries Friday to discuss the impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on global food security and how to best stabilize food markets, the government said.
"The provision of foodstuffs in Germany and the European Union is safe but greater shortages can be expected in some countries outside the EU ― especially where scarcity already reigns today due to issues like drought," German Agriculture Minister Cem Oezdemir said in statement.
"Price hikes for agricultural products cannot be excluded in industrialized nations either."
Germany holds the rotating presidency of the Group of Seven most advanced economies this year.
Russia calls its actions in Ukraine a “special operation” that it says is not designed to occupy territory but to destroy its southern neighbor's military capabilities and capture what it regards as dangerous nationalists. (Reuters)