CAIRO – 5 June 2022: Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry participated via video link on Sunday in a ministerial meeting of the Arab League on the Ukrainian crisis.
The meeting was attended by Secretary-General of the Arab League Ahmed Aboul Gheit. The meeting tackled means to contain the repercussions of the crisis on the region, according to a statement by the Foreign Ministry.
The war on Ukraine has led to inflation and soaring prices in several Arab states and rendered some countries such as Egypt in the lookout for other sources of wheat.
Russian and Ukraine were Egypt’s main exporters of wheat, where Egypt is the world’s biggest importer of the grain.
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