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Russia has key role in overcoming global food crisis - Kremlin
MOSCOW, May 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russia as one of the world’s largest grain
producers should play a leading role in overcoming the global food crisis and
creating a new grain market, the presidential chief of staff said.
In an interview with Vesti-24 Channel on Thursday, Sergei Naryshkin said
ensuring food security was “key to leading the global economy out of the
crisis.”
He said international organizations, in particular the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations, should coordinate the efforts of all major
grain producers to ensure “fair rules for all market players.”
Naryshkin said as of last year, Russia was among the world’s four largest grain
exporters, which “is very important in itself, since grain accounts for about
40% of global food production.”
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