that is trying to deliver food security for lebanon at a time, again, of catastrophic crisis. you were 70% reliant on ukraine for your wheat supplies. you had the terrible explosion in your port in 2020, which destroyed your major grain silos. you have promised that new silos will be built in your role as one of the chiefs of food security in lebanon. where are those new silos? it s more than two years since the port explosion. where are they? yes, that s true. lebanon lacks emergency reserves of grains because we lost the silos in beirut port explosion. and that, again, is a perfect demonstration, stephen, of the mismanagement of previous lebanese governments. and i say that not to put the blame on them and lift the blame on us, but there
flights. aviation businesses say they are working together to make things go as smoothly as possible but no one can guarantee the summer will be entirely free of turbulence. what has your experience been? have you tried to jet off somewhere or have you completely pulled plans because what we re hearing about is going on? do get in touch. i am @sallybundockbbc on twitter. but now going to ask, could there be an end to the global food crisis caused by the war in ukraine. un secretary general antonio guterres says there is hope. he was speaking up to talks between uk, russia, ukraine and turkey. russia and ukraine between them account for a word of global wheat supplies in the war has seen exports slumped, prices soaring, hitting some of the world s poorest countries
are not under sanctions, but there are investments there. insurance, they re there. the financing finance operations to pay for that grain are. so first, before we export anything, those things have to be lifted and the arrangements made. then, on the ukrainian grain, we said long time that that it is not our fault that the coastal waters near odesa and other ports in the south of ukraine were mined by the ukrainians. if they do demine it, then if we are ready to provide safe passage for their vessels to go and to export their grain. if you re in the uk, you can watch the full interview with the russian ambassador to the un on iplayer. and outside the uk, you can watch it on bbc world news the times are on your screen now. wheat exports are at the centre of this because, until the conflict, russia and ukraine accounted for a third of global wheat supplies
The International Food Policy Institute says that the world will not run out of wheat, despite a lack of shipments from Ukraine and a bad winter wheat crop in the U.S.
in ukraine is clearly affecting wheat supplies, and now we have some countries looking to put themselves first, quite understandably. we have seen palm oil in indonesia and malaysia, and now we did in argentina, dammit limiting export. how easy is it to diversified suoply, how easy is it to diversified supply, because ukraine are quite clearly, its ability to produce and export has been severely impacted. now, india is saying it will keep its domestic production for its domestic production for its domestic market. there aren t many other sources, are there? it is not easy, people will look to the european union, which is a huge grower of weed, but france itself now has a headwear problem as well, or certainly has in recent days. this isn t as easy. india has slightly soft and its stance. it says it will continue to supply neighbouring vulnerable countries, and honour contracts where financing is already in