{"id":1975050,"date":"2023-07-17T11:39:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T15:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-pressures-russia-to-resume-black-sea-grain-deal-amid-rising-global-food-prices\/"},"modified":"2023-07-17T11:41:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T15:41:40","slug":"white-house-pressures-russia-to-resume-black-sea-grain-deal-amid-rising-global-food-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-pressures-russia-to-resume-black-sea-grain-deal-amid-rising-global-food-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"White House urges Russia to restart Black Sea grain deal amidst surging food costs."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2Fwhite-house-pressures-russia-to-resume-black-sea-grain-deal-amid-rising-global-food-prices%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=1975050&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--><h2>The Biden\u2064 White House\u2064 Urges\u2062 Russia\u200b to\u2064 Reverse \u200bDecision\u2064 on Black\u2063 Sea Grain Initiative<\/h2>\n<p>The \u2063Biden White House \u2064has called on Russia \u200cto \u200dreconsider \u2064its \u200cdecision to withdraw from the Black Sea\u2063 Grain\u200c Initiative,\u200b a\u2064 move\u2063 that \u2064comes \u2062amidst the \u2063country&#8217;s \u200dinvasion\u2063 of\u2064 Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative, which was established in \u200d2022,\u2064 aimed \u2062to\u2064 stabilize global food prices \u2064that had\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nh-election-audit-shows-machine-error-gave-extra-votes-to-local-democrat-determines-no-fraud-bias\/\" title=\"NH Election Audit Shows Machine Error Gave Extra Votes To Local Democrat; Determines No \u2018Fraud,\u2019 \u2018Bias\u2019\">skyrocketed due<\/a>\u2062 to the\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/yemen-lgbt-refugees-and-white-supremacy-everything-you-need-to-know-about-bidens-first-foreign-policy-speech\/\" title=\"Yemen, LGBT Refugees, And White Supremacy: Everything You Need To Know About Biden\u2019s First Foreign Policy Speech\">ongoing war<\/a>.\u2063 The Black \u200cSea\u200d region is responsible for producing the \u2062majority\u200b of the\u2062 grain sold\u2062 in Europe and \u2063Africa.<\/p>\n<h3>Concerns Over Food Insecurity<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Russia&#8217;s decision to \u200bsuspend participation in \u2062the \u200bBlack\u200b Sea Grain\u2062 Initiative will worsen \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/most-of-bidens-1-9-trillion-coronavirus-relief-bill-has-nothing-to-do-with-public-health\/\" title=\"Most Of Biden\u2019s .9 Trillion Coronavirus Relief Bill Has Nothing To Do With Public Health\">food insecurity<\/a> and\u2064 harm millions\u200d of\u200d vulnerable people around the\u2063 world,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>said acting \u200dNational \u2062Security Council spokesperson \u200bAdam Hodge \u2064in a\u200d statement on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;More than\u2064 half of\u2064 the 32 million \u2064metric tons of\u200c grain and foodstuffs shipped through the initiative has\u200d gone to developing countries, including some of \u200bthe most\u2062 food\u2063 insecure\u2062 regions of\u200d the globe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hodge \u2064emphasized\u200d that every shipment \u200cmade\u2064 under\u200b the initiative\u200d has played \u200ba\u200c crucial\u200d role in reducing hardship in the\u2063 world&#8217;s poorest \u2063nations, \u2063as it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-pressures-russia-to-resume-black-sea-grain-deal-amid-rising-global-food-prices\/\" title=\"White House urges Russia to restart Black Sea grain deal amidst surging food costs.\">helps lower food prices globally<\/a>. He\u200b further \u200cexpressed \u2063concern \u200dthat \u200cRussia&#8217;s decision has\u2062 already\u2064 led\u200b to a \u200bspike \u200din global \u200cfood prices\u200d and \u2062urged the Russian\u2063 government\u200d to\u200b reverse\u2064 its stance immediately.<\/p>\n<h3>Expiration of the\u200c Black \u2063Sea Deal<\/h3>\n<p>The\u200d Black\u200c Sea deal, brokered\u200c by Russia, \u200dUkraine, Turkey, and the\u200c United Nations in July \u200bof last \u2064year,\u2062 expired on Monday morning. Russia&#8217;s Foreign Ministry \u200dnotified\u2064 Turkey, Ukraine, and other\u2064 participating countries that\u200c it would\u200d no\u200d longer honor safety guarantees for\u200c ships\u2062 transporting \u200dgrain in the\u2063 region.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow \u200djustified its \u200bdecision by claiming\u200c that\u200b the\u200c other \u2063countries involved in the\u2063 initiative \u2064had failed to fulfill their promises to \u2064support\u2062 Russia&#8217;s food \u200band \u2062fertilizer \u200bexports.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Under these conditions \u200cof outright sabotage in the \u2064implementation \u200dof \u2063the Istanbul agreements, the\u2062 continuation \u200cof \u2063the &#8216;Black Sea \u2062initiative,&#8217; which\u200b did not justify\u200d its humanitarian \u2063purpose, becomes meaningless,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>stated \u200dthe Kremlin in a released statement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The\u2063 Biden administration \u2063remains\u200b committed\u200c to addressing the impact \u200bof\u200c Russia&#8217;s withdrawal \u2062from \u2062the Black\u2064 Sea\u200d Grain Initiative and its potential consequences on \u200dglobal food \u2062security.<\/p>\n<p><a \u200dhref=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click here<\/a> to read \u200bmore\u2064 from \u200cThe Washington \u2063Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration called on Russia to reconsider its withdrawal from the Black Sea Grain Initiative, which aimed to stabilize soaring global food prices caused by the Ukrainian conflict. 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