Belarus do Offers to send powdered milk to the United States: said President Lukashenko, who can send it as a commercial product or as humanitarian aid.
“The United States can get baby food and other baby food from Belarus,” the country’s President Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday.
He was commenting on the acute shortage of products in the United States and the Biden administration’s process of sending supplies by plane.
“We have good milk and good baby meat productsRaw, canned food, formula, everything. “If they want, we can deliver supplies tomorrow,” he said, “Belarus offers to send powdered milk to the United States.”
Presentation of the Belarusian leader
The Belarus leader, US sanctioned for alleged human rights violationsHe added that he is ready to provide food as a commercial product and as humanitarian aid.
He insisted that he believed Americans could buy Belarusian products. The President made these remarks, speaking to the press. He invited journalists to convey his presentation.Belarus offers to send powdered milk to the United States“.
Shortage due to Abbott factory closures
The shortage of infant formula in the United States was caused by the February closure of the Michigan facility operated by Abbott Laboratories over contamination concerns.
The structure that represents approx 40% of infant formula in the US marketwithdrew some of its products and closed a manufacturing plant after four infants who were fed formula prepared at the facility fell ill with a rare disease, a bacterial infection.
Two of them died later. US President Joe Biden admitted this week that he underestimated the plant’s supply. He said his administration started after he learned of the situation in early April and was moving to resolve the crisis.
Imported milk powder from Germany
Washington sent military cargo planes to bring infant formula from Germany. The US is also trying to secure more supplies from the UK and Australia as part of the so-called process fly formula.
Belarus as a state and President Lukashenko personally has been the target of multiple rounds of Western sanctions, yet today Belarus offers to send powdered milk to the United States. The last batch was produced in response to allowing Russian forces to use their territory to launch an offensive against Ukraine.