Vasyl Bodnar, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
The European Union is ready to help us with the vaccine 28.01.2021 10:00
The year 2021 begins quite actively for Ukrainian-German relations: January is not over yet, and representatives of the President s Office, the Government and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have already visited Berlin as part of consultations at the level of political advisers in the Normandy format. On January 25, political consultations between the foreign ministries took place at the German Federal Foreign Office
Head of the Ukrainian delegation, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Vasyl Bodnar shared with Ukrinform information about what other events are planned for this year, what issues are ‘sensitive’ in relations with Germany and our immediate neighbors.
With a new administration in the White House, there is renewed hope for transatlantic cooperation on China policy despite the sometimes-erratic nature of this relationship. For one, in stark contrast to his predecessor, U.S. President Joe Biden believes that the United States is strongest when it works with its allies.
1 Brussels, for its part, is drafting new proposals to meet the “strategic challenge” posed by China.
2 There is a sense that a revived emphasis on multilateralism presents opportunities for the European Union (EU) and the United States to manage their differences and work with China to resolve fundamental issues in the trilateral relationship.
/
As the covid-19 pandemic heads for a showdown with vaccines it’s expected to lose, many experts in the field of emerging infectious diseases are already focused on preventing the next one.
They fear another virus will leap from wildlife into humans, one that is far more lethal but spreads as easily as SARS-CoV-2, the strain of coronavirus that causes covid-19. A virus like that could change the trajectory of life on the planet, experts say.
“What keeps me up at night is that another coronavirus like MERS, which has a much, much higher mortality rate, becomes as transmissible as covid,” said Christian Walzer, executive director of health at the Wildlife Conservation Society. “The logistics and the psychological trauma of that would be unbearable.”
Logistics cluster: Training Programme Mid-Term Review
Format
Global, February – July 2020
Since the creation of the Cluster system the importance of having well trained personnel both at global and field-level has been recognized and continuously re-emphasized. The following pages will highlight, through a series of reports, how the Global Logistics Cluster (GLC) with the generous support of the German Federal Foreign Office (GFFO) funding, has played a key role in capacity development and network building in the humanitarian logistics community.
In 2018, the GFFO made a generous 3-year financial contribution to the Global Logistics Cluster Training Programme which has allowed the Cluster to increase the scope and frequency of the trainings offered. This review focused on the in-person trainings that have been conducted since the start of this funding in January 2018 until trainings conducted in December 2019.