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Indias Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar speaks during a UN Security Council high-level meeting on COVID-19 recovery focusing on vaccinations, chaired by British Foreign Secretary Dominc Raab.
India s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar denounced vaccine nationalism on Wednesday and called for putting the world on guard against future pandemics.
Addressing, through a video link, the Security Council, he said: Stop vaccine nationalism, indeed actively encourage internationalism. Hoarding superfluous doses will defeat our efforts towards attaining collective health security. He contrasted that attitude of the Western nations with India s global vaccine efforts.
New Delhi s Vaccine Maitri programme, he pointed out, has provided Covid-19 vaccines to 25 countries, and 49 more from Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean to Africa, South-East Asia and the Pacific Islands will get them soon.