The United Nations Rights Chief Volker Turk has blamed Russia’s exit from the Black Sea grain deal as well as its attacks on agricultural facilities for higher food prices.
Turk who was speaking at the opening of the Human Rights Council session in Geneva was referring specifically to high malnutrition rates in Somalia amid drought.
Russia quit the U.N.-brokered grain deal, aimed at easing a global food crisis, in July.
In the same speech evoking human rights crises around the world, Turk referred to a series of incidents of Koran burning in Sweden and elsewhere repugnant.
He also called for strong remedial action from China in response to a report from his predecessor a year ago that highlighted possible crimes against humanity committed against Muslims in Xinjiang.
Ukraine has accused Russia of intentionally striking grain terminals and infrastructure in the Black Sea port of Odesa and elsewhere. In some cases, Russian state media have claimed the facilities were housing mercenaries and military hardware, without providing evidence.
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