Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hassina has urged the Western countries and America to lift the sanctions against Russia. She is the first head of the government to urge the government to lift the sanctions.
Russia attacked Ukraine in February claiming to DE Nazify the Ukrainians who were pro-Nazis. But the war is still going on and America and other Western countries sanction on Russia to put pressure on Russia for ending the war. But this sanction has severe repercussions throughout the global and world is slipping into famine. The Western nations led the US have frozen about 400 billion of Russian assets. This have a adverse affect on the food commodities and also on the humanitarian front.
She said that, “America should consider that the sanctions (against Russia) are hurting their own people. Your sanctions are targeted at pressuring Russia. But to what extent are they feeling the feeling the pressure”. Hasina further added that, ” all countries irrespective of status- developed, developing, and low income countries- have been suffering”. This came after her country is suffering major economic and food crisis. Due to the sanctions food prices have gone up immensely and people are suffering everywhere.
People in Bangladesh are bearing the burden of rising food, fuel, and fertilizers. Government is being forced to adverse measures of limiting fuel use and electricity generation. The UN had warned that Russia’s war in Ukraine could push up to 49 million people into famine or famine-like condition. Hasia said the US-imposed sanctions have reduced the availability of goods, including those imported by Bangladesh. Not only in Bangladesh, but people in the US, Europe, the UK and the rest of the world are also affected by the sanctions.
As Charles Dickens had wrote in ‘A Tale of Two Cities’, that, “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief…” The time in which we live shows the contradictory world where East is flourishing and the Western countries are doomed. It’s a time of global famine and war, but also a time to give hope to humanity to stand in unity. Hassina’s speech will make a greater impact throughput the world.
