{"id":53994,"date":"2022-10-30T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=53994"},"modified":"2022-10-30T09:00:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T16:00:44","slug":"suspension-of-the-black-sea-grain-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=53994","title":{"rendered":"Suspension of the Black Sea Grain Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>10\/29\/2022 09:02 PM EDT<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State<\/p>\n<p>The United States\u00a0regrets\u00a0Russia\u2019s\u00a0<wbr \/>suspension of\u00a0its\u00a0participation in the\u00a0operations of the\u00a0U.N.-brokered Black Sea Grain Initiative.\u00a0 We urge\u00a0all parties\u00a0to keep this\u00a0essential, life-saving\u00a0Initiative functioning.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Sea Grain Initiative has already moved\u00a0more than 9 million\u00a0metric tons of\u00a0food\u00a0and brought prices down around the world,\u00a0which has been critically important for low- and middle-income\u00a0countries.\u00a0\u00a0It has been a success and must continue.<\/p>\n<p>Any\u00a0act\u00a0by Russia\u00a0to\u00a0disrupt\u00a0these critical grain exports is essentially a statement that people and families around the world should pay more for food or go hungry.\u00a0\u00a0In\u00a0suspending\u00a0this arrangement,\u00a0Russia is\u00a0again\u00a0weaponizing\u00a0food\u00a0in the war it started, directly impacting low-\u00a0and middle-income countries and global food prices, and exacerbating already dire humanitarian crises and food insecurity.<\/p>\n<p>We urge the\u00a0Government of Russia to\u00a0resume\u00a0its participation in the\u00a0Initiative, fully comply with the arrangement,\u00a0and\u00a0work to\u00a0ensure that people around the world continue to be able to receive the\u00a0benefits\u00a0facilitated by the Initiative.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10\/29\/2022 09:02 PM EDT &nbsp; Antony&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53995,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53994\/revisions\/53995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}