{"id":1475329,"date":"2022-05-14T19:29:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T23:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1475329"},"modified":"2022-05-14T19:29:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T23:29:52","slug":"g7-will-continue-economic-pressure-on-russia-tackle-wheat-war-being-waged-by-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/g7-will-continue-economic-pressure-on-russia-tackle-wheat-war-being-waged-by-moscow\/","title":{"rendered":"G7 Will Continue Economic Pressure on Russia, Tackle \u201cWheat War\u201d Being Waged by Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fg7-will-continue-economic-pressure-on-russia-tackle-wheat-war-being-waged-by-moscow%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1475329&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><header aria-label=\"Beginning of Article\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Author of the article:<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Reuters\" aria-labelledby=\"wire-company-name\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0e5521e933d53566787277062da28f5a?s=70&#038;d=mp\" \/> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p> Reuters <\/p>\n<p> Alexander Ratz and John Irish <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<p>WEISSENHAUS \u2014 Group of Seven foreign ministers vowed on Saturday to reinforce Russia\u2019s economic and political isolation, continue supplying weapons to Ukraine and tackle what Germany\u2019s foreign minister described as a \u201cwheat war\u201d being waged by Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>After meeting at a 400-year-old castle estate in the Baltic Sea resort of Weissenhaus, senior diplomats from Britain, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, the United States and the European Union also pledged to continue their military and defense assistance for \u201cas long as necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They would also tackle what they called Russian misinformation aimed at blaming the West for food supply issues around the world due to economic sanctions on Moscow and urged China to not assist Moscow or justify Russia\u2019s war, according to a joint statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave we done enough to mitigate the consequences of this war? It is not our war. It\u2019s a war by the president of Russia, but we have global responsibility,\u201d Germany\u2019s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock told reporters at a closing news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Key to putting more pressure on Russia is to ban or phase out buying Russian oil with EU member states expected next week to reach an agreement on the issue even if it remains at this stage opposed by Hungary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will expedite our efforts to reduce and end reliance on Russian energy supplies and as quickly as possible, building on g7 commitments to phase out or ban imports of Russian coal and oil,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The ministers said they would add further sanctions on Russian elites, including economic actors, central government institutions and the military, which enable President Valdimir Putin \u201cto lead his war of choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The meeting in northern Germany, which the foreign ministers of Ukraine and Moldova attended, also spotlighted food security concerns and fears that the war in Ukraine could spill over into its smaller neighbor Moldova.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople will be dying in Africa and the Middle East and we are faced with an urgent question: how can people be fed around the world? People are asking themselves what will happen if we don\u2019t have the grain we need that we used to get from Russia and Ukraine,\u201d Baerbock said.<\/p>\n<p>She added that the G7 would work on finding logistical solutions to get vital commodities out of Ukraine storage before the next harvests.<\/p>\n<p>Attention now turns to Berlin as ministers meet later on Saturday with Sweden and Finland gearing up to apply for membership of the transatlantic alliance, drawing threats of retaliation from Moscow and objections from NATO member Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is important that we have a consensus,\u201d Canada\u2019s Foreign Minister Melanie Joly told reporters when asked about Turkey possibly blocking their accession.<\/p>\n<p>Putin calls the invasion a \u201cspecial military operation\u201d to disarm Ukraine and rid it of anti-Russian nationalism fomented by the West. Ukraine and its allies say Russia launched an unprovoked war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore of the same,\u201d EU Foreign Policy chief Josep Borrell told reporters. \u201cThe one thing that is missing is pushing for a diplomatic engagement to get a ceasefire. It is missing because Vladimir Putin has been saying to everybody that he doesn\u2019t want to stop the war.\u201d (Writing by John Irish; Editing by Mike Harrison)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author of the article:  Reuters  Alexander Ratz and John Irish   WEISSENHAUS \u2014 Group of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":1897664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1475329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}