JAKARTA, June 27 — Indonesia calls on all countries to act immediately and not to give up in finding a peaceful solution in Ukraine so that the affected global food supply chain can be restored.
Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said this at the ‘Ministerial Conference on Uniting for Global Food Security’ in Berlin, Germany in a hybrid manner last week which was also attended by foreign ministers, agriculture ministers and development ministers of the G7 countries.
Retno said the effects of the current war was not limited to one region but had also destroyed the global food system chain which was already weakened by the pandemic and climate change.
Thus, an effective solution is to create a ‘grain corridor’ to export grain from Ukraine as well as open up the export of food and fertilisers from Russia.
“When we fail to overcome the fertiliser crisis, then there will be a rice crisis that will affect the fate of more than two billion people in the world,” she said in a statement.
International Grains Council data show Ukraine was the world’s fourth-largest corn exporter in the world and the sixth largest exporter of wheat in the 2020/ 2021 season.
In May, President Vladimir Putin reportedly said Russia was ready to contribute to overcoming the food crisis through grain and fertiliser exports, provided politically motivated sanctions are lifted.
