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India Declines UN s Help Offer from Integrated Supply Chain, Says it Has Robust System One of the things we did is we offered the assistance of our integrated supply chain if it was required. We ve been told at this point that it s not needed, the UN Chief s deputy spokesperson has said.
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United Nations: India has declined assistance offered by the United Nations of its integrated supply chain for COVID-19-related material, saying the country has a “robust system” to deal with the required logistics, a spokesperson for UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said.
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United Nations–India has turned down the UN’s offer of assistance from its integrated supply chain saying that it has its own “robust” system to manage the logistics of getting material for the dealing with the COVID-19 surge, according to a UN spokesperson.
“We offered the assistance of our integrated supply chain if it was required. We’ve been told at this point that it’s not needed because India has a reasonably robust system to deal with this. But our offer stands, and we’re willing to help in whatever way we can,” Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq said on Tuesday.