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India will provide two lakh doses of Covid-19 vaccine to UN peacekeepers as gifts, India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has announced. "Keeping in mind the UN peacekeepers who operate in such difficult circumstances, we would like to announce today a gift of 200,000 doses for them," the minister said today while speaking at the UN Security Council's open debate on
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Published: 17 Feb 2021 09:37 PM BdST
Updated: 17 Feb 2021 09:37 PM BdST A policeman receives a dose of COVISHIELD, a COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by Serum Institute of India, at a vaccination centre in Ahmedabad, India, February 4, 2021. REUTERS
India on Wednesday offered a COVID-19 vaccine to all United Nations peacekeepers - nearly 95,000 troops in 12 missions around the world. );
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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.