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Multidimensional crisis

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AuthorStatesman News Service
Published date30 June 2022
Publication titleStatesman, The (India)
The money will be used to ease what the grouping has called a "multidimensional crisis" that has rendered as many as 323 million people in the world at high risk of food shortages. This is said to be a record. The crisis is forbidding if the joint statement is any indication. "We reiterate our urgent call upon Russia to ~ without condition ~ end its blockade of Ukrainian Black Sea ports, destruction of key port and transport infrastructure, grain silos and terminals"

And then the punchline ~ "These can only be assessed as a geopolitically motivated attack on global food security". Geostrategy is a critical facet of G7's exercise in summitry. Not the least because the United States and its western allies are trying to find new ways to tighten pressure on Russia and shore up the global economy. The imperative has been realised after four months of sanctions against the Kremlin. Military support for Ukraine has failed to apply the brakes on Russian aggression.

Both at the G7 summit and the Nato meeting, President Biden and other leaders have sought to demonstrate their resolve to keep punishing Russia. The war has driven up food and energy prices. International law and relations have seldom been more complex. Food prices the world over have surged ever since the Russian invasion. In...

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