Ukraine Gate- Kyiv – May 16, 2022 – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced, in the early hours of Monday morning, that he will address the participants in the World Economic Forum in Davos on May 23.
The Ukrainian News Agency quoted Zelensky as saying in a video speech that this year’s Davos Forum will be of special interest to Ukraine, where issues of rebuilding the state will be discussed after the current Russian military operation on its territory.
Zelensky added: We are doing everything we can to garner the support of the whole world.. Participation in Davos is one of the best opportunities for that.
The Davos Forum froze all relations with Russia and suspended its strategic partnership with businessmen due to its military operation in Ukraine in late February.
Zelensky stressed earlier that dozens of countries are at risk of the food price crisis and hunger, calling on countries to ally with Ukraine and join hands to prevent starvation.
Zelensky said that one of the issues that I deal with on a daily basis is food security, adding that more and more countries are beginning to realize that Russia is exposing dozens of countries to the risk of food price crisis and even starvation by closing the Black Sea and continuing this war.
He added, “This is another incentive to unite against the war and to work together more resolutely, and now, we are calling for the support of Ukraine, especially with weapons, and to work to prevent starvation.
The Group of Seven warned of a global food crisis due to the war in Ukraine, which is fueling a global food and energy crisis that threatens poor countries, stressing that urgent measures are needed to free up grain stocks that Russia is preventing from leaving Ukraine.
Expectations indicate that Ukrainian wheat production will decline by 35% from last year, which increases fears of the complexity of supply chains and the rise in food prices.
Meanwhile, the United Nations World Food Program confirmed that the war in Ukraine showed the fragility of agricultural systems and its dire consequences for food security, in light of US expectations that Ukrainian wheat production would decline to a greater proportion than expected due to the widening of the war.
