July 17 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The new president of Sri Lanka, Ranil Wickremesinghe, has assured this Sunday that there is “a lot to do” in the country to avoid a “fall” at the global level and has highlighted that the member countries of the G7 have offered 14 million dollars (13 .8 million euros) to the Asian country to deal with the food crisis.
Thus, he has highlighted the importance of taking measures to prevent other developing countries from being seriously affected by the situation at the international level.
During a conference on food security, Wickremesinghe lamented the effects of inflation, especially on food prices.
“It is said that six million people in Sri Lanka suffer from malnutrition. Other information says that this figure could rise to 7.5 million. (…) Currently the country has to import a third of the rice it needs,” he asserted, according to information from the newspaper ‘The Daily Mirror’.
In this sense, he has warned that Sri Lanka also suffers from an “oil supply problem”. “The G7 global alliance for food security of which the World Bank is also a member has offered 14 million to buy food,” he said.
He also assured that the country has launched a program to guarantee food security. “Our problem is partly ours and partly a global issue,” she said.
“The war in Ukraine and the sanctions imposed by the European Union are affecting us. The EU says that the sanctions will not affect us but it is not like that and it will take the underdeveloped countries to the limit”, he lamented, although he has indicated that Brussels is not the only culprit.
For this reason, he has clarified that Russia must also call for a ceasefire. “The two of them should do it to resolve matters peacefully,” she has said.
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