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: .
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Jaishankar calls for an end to ‘vaccine nationalism’
India announced a gift of 2,00,000 doses of vaccine to the U.N. Peacekeeping Forces on Wednesday.
The announcement was made by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar during his remarks at a U.N. Security Council open debate on the implementation of resolution 2532 (2020), passed last year, noting the impact of COVID-19 globally and calling for the cessation of hostilities around the world to help combat the pandemic. The debate was attended by the Foreign Ministers of UNSC member countries.
“Keeping in mind the U.N. Peacekeepers who operate in such difficult circumstances, we would like to announce today a gift of 2,00,000 doses for them,” Mr. Jaishankar said. The Minister said India had already sent vaccines to 25 countries under its Vaccine Maitri programme and that 49 more countries would be supplied in the coming days.
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India, which has shipped Made In India COVID-19 vaccines to around 25 nations, on Wednesday urged the international community to stop vaccine nationalism and actively encourage internationalism, underlining that hoarding superfluous doses will defeat global efforts to attain collective health security and combat the pandemic. Addressing the UN Security Council, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar outlined nine points for consideration of the international community to help the world put the COVID-19 pandemic decisively behind it and to emerge more resilient. Stop vaccine nationalism ; indeed, actively encourage internationalism. Hoarding superfluous doses will defeat our efforts towards attaining collective health security, he said, speaking at the open debate on the implementation of resolution 2532 (2020) on the cessation of hostilities in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.