SA speaks on TRIPS waiver at BRICS FM meeting
ANI
01 Jun 2021, 22:56 GMT+10
New Delhi [India], June 1 (ANI): The proposal by South Africa and India for a temporary global waiver on patent protection for COVID-19 vaccines will facilitate wider access to technologies needed to produce vaccines, South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor on Tuesday.
Speaking at the BRICS foreign ministers meeting, Pandor raised the issue of the global gap in access to COVID-19 vaccines, saying millions of people in wealthy nations have been vaccinated, while billions in poor countries are still vulnerable to infectious disease and death.
The meeting was chaired by External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar through video conferencing.
BRICS on Tuesday extended their support for a temporary global waiver on patent protection for COVID-19 vaccines and also reiterated the need for sharing of vac
Indian diplomacy will have to handle the fallout of the vaccine collapse and bio-research regulations
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s words on Buddha Purnima, that in times to come the planet will remember events as either “pre-Covid or post-Covid” could not hold truer than for India’s diplomatic structure worldwide. In the past month, the focus for the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and Missions abroad has shifted. While the focus in 2020, during the first wave of the pandemic, was on coordinating exports of COVID-19 medicines, flights to repatriate Indians abroad (the ‘Vande Bharat Mission’) after the lockdown, and then exporting vaccines worldwide (‘Vaccine Maitri’), after the second wave, Covid Diplomacy 2.0 has a different order of tasks, both in the immediate and the long term.
New Delhi [India], June 1 (ANI): The proposal by South Africa and India for a temporary global waiver on patent protection for COVID-19 vaccines will facilitate wider access to technologies needed to produce vaccines, South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor on Tuesday.
BRICS Ministers of Foreign Affairs express ‘grave concern’ with regard to COVID-19
The Foreign Ministers of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) grouping on Tuesday expressed “grave concern” with regard to the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Addressing a virtual meeting, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi expressed solidarity with India over the recent surge in COVID-19 cases, and said the grouping was ready to assist the country to fight the pandemic “as long as needed”.
The Ministers also agreed on reforming the multilateral system, which was the “first time” that such a consensus was reached, sources said.
“The Ministers expressed grave concern over the continuing public health, societal and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic globally. They expressed condolences for lives lost and pledged solidarity with the affected families,” a statement issued after the meeting said.