KIEV– Egypt’s Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouli asserted on Friday that the Russian-Ukrainian crisis had affected the African continent and its peoples.
This came in his speech during a press conference in Kiev for African leaders participating in the African initiative aiming at reaching a settlement for the Russian-Ukrainian crisis.
The premier added that the African citizen was affected by the crisis in his daily life as he felt a shortage in fertilizers and grains, especially that Russia and Ukraine’s wheat exports amounting to 23 percent of the whole world’s wheat exports.
He further noted that African leaders are keen on exerting efforts to stop bloodshed, as well as facing consequences affecting the Russian, Ukrainian and African citizens.
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi had assigned me to participate in today’s event within Egypt’s strong support to efforts exerted to resolve the Russian-Ukrainian crisis, taking into account that the military conflict had killed a number of military men and civilians as well as displacing millions of civilians, the premier added.
Since the beginning of the crisis, Egypt had adopted a stance that supports the UN charter and principles of the international law, he said.
Egypt’s stance aims at ending conflict through reaching a ceasefire and engaging in constructive talks in order to reach just and sustainable settlement that guarantees international peace and security, as well as bringing an end to humanitarian suffering, Madbouli said.
