Vedant Patel
U.S. State Department on Wednesday sharly rejected Russian President Vladimir Putin's allegations against the West.
Addressing the plenary assembly of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, the Kremlin leader threatened to limit Ukraine’s Black Sea grain exports claiming falsely that "most of Ukraine’s grain is going to the EU, not developing nations." He also maintained that the rise in food prices was "the work of Western sanctions."
Vedant Patel, Department's deputy spokesperson, told TURAN's Washington correspondent during daily briefing that the Black Sea Grain Initiative is a humanitarian arrangement to bring desperately needed food to the world's hungry populations and that any allegation or notion that the U.S. sanctions are standing in the way of that are "just simply not true."
As a matter of fact, U.S. sanctions have always had clear exemptions for food and fertilizer, and "our sanctions have never targeted humanitarian assistance", Patel said.
"Russia must continue to live up to its commitments through the Black Grain Sea Initiative," he added.
Alex Raufoglu
Washington D.C.
Politics
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Oil and gas remain indispensable to producers and consumers worldwide, including the social sector, OPEC Secretary-General Haitham Al Ghais said on Wednesday, emphasizing the energy sector's critical role in ensuring global energy access and security.
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Imran Aliyev, the head of the online platform Meclis.info, has declared a hunger strike at the Baku Pretrial Detention Center-1. He announced this in a letter to the public. Aliyev reports that he has been on hunger strike since November 18 in protest against his arrest. "I have been unlawfully detained for 7 months. During this time, judges have been making decisions in my case based on false accusations that are not supported by any evidence."
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Osman Narimanoglu, the head of the website demokratik.az, who is serving a prison sentence, declared a hunger strike on November 19 at the Sheki Penitentiary Complex. He is protesting against criminal prosecution and the disregard of his complaints by the Attorney General of Azerbaijan, according to his wife, Arzu Rzayeva.
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