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S. Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs on Wednesday, attended a virtual meeting with the G7 Foreign and Development Ministers fearing possible COVID-exposure. The withdrawal from a face-to-face meeting was decided in the wake of two Indian delegation ministers testing positive for COVID 19 in London.
External affairs minister joined foreign ministers of other countries on a video link where they deliberated on ensuring fairer access to vaccine stock and increasing support for COVAX, a global initiative aimed at equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines.
Vaccines and a diverse product line are the global answers to the raging Covid-19 pandemic, and India will play a role in achieving those goals, said External Affairs Minister Jaishankar on Wednesday. The external affairs minister also stressed the dire need for transparency in these situations where geopolitics is undergoing a phase of transition in the wake of the Global Pandemic. The only long-term solution to the COVI
‘Pandemic should not be used to cover up leadership’s failure to address organisational issues’
The Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP), headed by Sonia Gandhi, would be meeting virtually on Friday but a section of the party is asking why the leadership has not yet conducted a post-mortem of the Assembly election results.
It is the first time the CPP will meet virtually after the Budget session of Parliament ended on March 25 and will be attended by former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former party chief Rahul Gandhi.
While some prominent members of the Group of 23 dissenters (G-23) like Ghulam Nabi Azad and Kapil Sibal had publicly said the debate on poll performance can wait in the face of a public health emergency, others maintain that the pandemic should not be used to “cover up the leadership’s failure to address organisational issues”.
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We get a sense the world is with us in COVID travail: Jaishankar
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Last Updated: May 05, 2021, 04:05 PM IST
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Jaishankar, who is in the UK on a four-day visit to participate in the G7 Foreign and Development Ministers Meeting as a guest minister, admitted that India s health system “stands exposed” but that there is a focussed plan to ramp up the vaccination programme and address the country s needs beyond the immediacy of the pandemic.
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On the central theme of the discussion, Jaishankar stressed that India has not one but many plans to move the country towards revival mode.
Read more about We get a sense the world is with us in Covid-19 travail: Jaishankar on Business Standard. External Affairs Minister Jaishankar welcomed the enormous goodwill from countries around the world as a sense of solidarity in diplomacy