Secretary-General Calls Vaccine Equity Biggest Moral Test for Global Community, as Security Council Considers Equitable Availability of Doses
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Addressing the equitable distribution of vaccines against the coronavirus in the Security Council today, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres proposed the creation of an emergency task force by the G20 countries to prepare and help implement a global immunization plan.
“The rollout of COVID-19 vaccines is generating hope,” he told the 15-member Council’s videoconferencing meeting. “At this critical moment, vaccine equity is the biggest moral test before the global community.”
Today’s meeting was organized to discuss the role of the Security Council, Member States and the United Nations in ensuring that vaccines are made available equitably in places affected by conflict and insecurity.
WHO Director-General s opening remarks at briefing for the Arab Group of Ambassadors
WHO Director-General s opening remarks at briefing for the Arab Group of Ambassadors 10 February 2021
Your Excellency, Ambassador Tamim Baiou, Chair of the Arab Group of Ambassadors,
Your Excellency, Ambassador Ali Ibn Abi Talib Abdelrahman Mahmoud, Coordinator of the Arab Group of Ambassadors for Health,
Excellencies, dear colleagues and friends,
Ambassador Baiou and Ambassador Mahmoud, I would like to offer my thanks for bringing us together today.
I spoke with many of you last week in the meeting with the Ambassadors of the Small States.
Today, we meet as a group of countries with somewhat different challenges.